Identification and Other Probabilistic Models
Ahlswede, Rudolf / Tamm, Ulrich / Deppe, Christian / Ahlswede, Alexander / Althöfer, Ingo The sixth volume of Rudolf Ahlswede's lectures on Information Theory is focused on Identification Theory. In contrast to Shannon's classical coding scheme for the transmission of a message over a noisy channel, in the theory of identification the decoder is not really interested in what the received message is, but only in deciding whether a message, which is of special interest to him, has been sent or not. There are also algorithmic problems...