Added 11 Nov 2005 - Heikki Topi and Gordon Davies

Systems Theory

• Systems concepts: structure, boundaries, states, objectives
  • System components and relationships
  • Systems control: standards, control theory, feedback, loops, measurement, quality
  • Relationships of users and suppliers to the system
• Properties of open systems

Mathematical Foundations

Link to Algorithms and Complexity Link to Discrete Structures

Coding and Information Theory

• Formal Models of communicaton
• Shannon's Theorem
• Channel capacity
• Entropy
• Hamming distance
• Error Control Codes
  • Error Detecting
  • Error Correcting

Compression (add links from multimedia and information management as needed)

• Encoding and decoding algorithms
• Lossless and lossy
• Example Compression Algorithms
  • Huffman coding
  • Ziv-Lempel
• Image compression
• Video compression
• Audio compression
• Performance issues
  • Timing
  • Compression factor
  • Real time usefixed length code
• variable length codes
• frequency letters in texts
• DNA & biomedical information

Encryption Link to Algorithms: Problem Spaces: Cryptographic Algorithms

Probability and Statistics

• Queueing theory
• Experimental design
• Stochastic Processes
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Information display

• static displays
• motion displays
• interactive displays
• XML considerations

To be edited by Bob and James

storage & retrieval of information

local site information access

remote site information access

ethical & legal issues of information access

bidirectional information access (GPS)

security of information

accuracy

completeness

security levels
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