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Computer Mathematics & Science
World Scientific Series in Information Studies - Vol 11
Theoretical Information Studies
Information in the World
edited by Mark Burgin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) & Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Mälardalen University, Sweden)
This is the first attempt to delineate the synthetic field of the theoretical study of information, treating information as the basic phenomenon on the fundamental level of the world, encompassing nature, technology, individuals and society. The exploration of information is done within Infocomputational approaches, to natural and social phenomena with special emphasis on interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge.
The book presents results of collaboration across research fields within info-computational and info-structural frameworks, in attempt to better theoretically and conceptually capture the phenomenon of information and its dynamics (such as computation and communication), as they appear on different levels of organization, on different scales and in different contexts.
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in Information Theory.
536pp Mar 2020 978-981-3277-48-9 US$158 £140
Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications: Monographs, Expositions and Lecture Notes - Volume 3
Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory
by Tzuong-Tsieng Moh (Purdue University, USA)
An expert in algebra and algebraic geometry, Tzuong-Tsieng Moh covers many essential aspects of algebraic coding theory in this book, such as elementary algebraic coding theories, the mathematical theory of vector spaces and linear algebras behind them, various rings and associated coding theories, a fast decoding method, useful parts of algebraic geometry and geometric coding theories.
Readership: Advanced college students, graduate students, working coding theorists, working algebraic geometers.
200pp Feb 2022 978-981-122-096-8 US$88 £75
Operations Research
Introduction to Models and Methods
by Richard J Boucherie (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Aleida Braaksma (University of Twente, The Netherlands) & Henk Tijms (Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
This attractive textbook with its easy-tofollow presentation provides a down-to-earth introduction to operations research for students in a wide range of fields such as engineering, business analytics, mathematics and statistics, computer science, and econometrics. It is the result of many years of teaching and collective feedback from students.
The book covers the basic models in both deterministic and stochastic operations research and is a springboard to more specialized texts, either practical or theoretical. The emphasis is on useful models and interpreting the solutions in the context of concrete applications.
Readership: Undergraduate students in operations research, engineering, business analytics, mathematics, computer science, econometrics and quantitative economics.
World Scientific Series in Information Studies - Vol 10
Philosophy and Methodology of Information
The Study of Information in the Transdisciplinary Perspective edited by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Mälardalen University, Sweden) & Mark Burgin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
The book gives up-to-date, multi-aspect exposition of the philosophy and methodology of information, and related areas within the nascent field of the study of information. It presents the most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of leading researchers in this domain, as well as from physicists, biologists and social scientists. Collaboration of researchers from different areas and fields opens new perspectives for the understanding of information essential in the innovative development of science, technology and society.
The ideas presented give new insights for those who develop or implement scientific, technological or social applications. They are especially for those who are participating in setting the goals for science in general and sciences of information in particular.
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in Information Theory.
576pp 978-981-3277-51-9 Apr 2019 US$158 £140
Codes and Modular Forms
A Dictionary
by Minjia Shi (Anhui University, China), YoungJu Choie (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea), Anuradha Sharma (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India) & PatrickSolé (University of Aix Marseille, France)
There are connections between invariant theory and modular forms since the times of Felix Klein, in the 19th century, connections between codes and lattices since the 1960’s. The aim of the book is to explore the interplay between codes and modular forms. Here modular form is understood in a wide sense (Jacobi forms, Siegel forms, Hilbert forms). Codes comprises not only linear spaces over finite fields but modules over some commutative rings. The connection between codes over finite fields and lattices has been well documented since the 1970s. Due to an avalanche of results on codes over rings since the 1990’s there is a need for an update at book level.
Readership: Graduate students and researchers.
