Recent Developments in Information and Decision Processes
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Contents: The mathematics of self-organizing systems; the basic concepts of dynamic programming; axioms for persistent preference; further results in the theory of numerical convergence; some numerical results on a compound decision problem; testing statistical hypotheses - the "compound" approach; deferred decision theory; bayesian decision theory; the use of the maximum entropy estimate in reliability; the ergodic theorem of information theory; exploratory mathmatics by machine; bayesian statistics.