This volume contains contributions based on presentations made at the Conference on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Information Theory held in Cottbus, Germany, March 1994 and organized by the German Society for System Research and the Working Group for Physics and Computer Science. The papers present information on the theoretical, physical, biological, philosophical, linguistical and sociological basic properties of information. Most of the papers aim to present a coherent system-theoretical understanding of information as an entity in computer science as well as in physics. The outlines of a theory about pragmatic information are also developed.
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Part 1 Classical information theory: intensional and extensional meaning of information; long-range correlation and extended memory of symbol sequences. Part 2 Physical aspects: information processing of cosmic signals; relations between correlation and information entropy of quantum-mechanical many-body systems. Part 3 Biology: contextual dependency of information in biology. Part 4 System theoretical aspects: pragmatic information as a unifying concept. Part 5 Philosophy of science: can information be naturalized?; simple and complex systems in science. Part 6 Philosophical issues: complexity, meaning and the Cartesian cut. Part 7 Conceptual design: the genesis of information; remarks about a concept of information. Part 8 Linguistics: situational semantics and computer linguistics. Future aspects: knowledge cities - metropols of an information society.
