Book - Content

  • Introduction
    • What is this book for?
    • Restrictions
  • Picture of the world
    • Agents
    • Agents as a black box
    • Turing test
    • Silent agents and broadcasters
  • Structure of the agents
    • Definition of an agent
    • Components of an agent
    • Reproduction of agents, a priori information
    • Analysis of agents
    • Variability of platforms and hardware implementations
  • Construction of an information system
    • Architecture Variations and System Requirements
    • Variations in Data Structures and Operations
    • Predetermined (a priori) information of an agent
    • Russell’s paradox for operations, code auto-generation
    • The primacy dilemma for operations and data, operations with operations
  • Informatics of structures
    • Terms and Definitions
    • Elementary structure of information
    • Verbalization and image perception
    • Organization of information
    • Properties of signs
    • Encompassing structure of the sign, granularity
    • Completeness of objects and operations description
    • Representations and sign
    • Meta information and operations with it
    • Structures of mass information
    • Connections in information
      • References and replication
      • Connections in Diagramming Methodologies
      • Types of connections, navigation, connection load
      • Properties of connections
      • Operations with connections
      • Typical types of connections
        • Association
        • Analogy
        • Dependence and influence connections
        • Other types of connections
        • Forming connections between elements of information
    • Signs, properties, property values
    • Universe of information
    • Graphic representation of the universe
    • Operations with the universe
      • Sample
      • Navigation
      • Creating, changing, deleting information elements
  • Certain types of operations with information
    • Identification
      • Description of the recognition identification procedure
      • Registering object data
      • Non-identifying properties
      • Using external and assigning your own identifiers
      • Classification and identification
      • Simplification
      • De-identification
    • Information enrichment
    • Categorization
      • Variability of values
      • Typing of information and data
      • Scaling and oppositions
      • Discreteness of scales
      • Comparability of scales and categories, adjustment
      • Norms, deviations, default values
      • Relative and absolute values, completeness of values
    • Choice
    • Formation of information properties
      • Trust and reliability of information
      • Clarity and certainty of information
      • Hypotheses
      • Completeness of properties
    • Special signs
      • Absolute signs and quantifiers
      • Uniting signs
      • Holes
    • Information collection/retrieval
      • Scope of information collection
      • Methods of collecting information
      • Data completeness
      • Separation of information collection by roles and partial collection of information
    • Generation of potential information
    • Comparison of information
    • Validation and Verification
    • Context
    • The life cycle of information
    • Forgetting information, garbage collection
  • Symbolic computer science
    • Signs and symbols
    • Signs and numbers
    • Signs and constructions of natural language
  • Atoms and granules of information
    • Atomization and granulation of information
    • Modeling information structures
    • Sets and Lists
    • Tables
    • Frames
    • Networks and graphs
    • Semantic networks
    • Trees
    • Mind maps
    • Derived information structures
      • Structures of information by time
      • Journal structure of information
  • Data and information
    • Data atoms – bit, byte, word
    • Encoding information in data
    • Interpreting data, extracting meaning from data
    • Data types
    • Flat data structures: file and heap
    • XML
  • Data Models
    • Infological data model
    • Binary data model
    • Hierarchical data model
    • Network data model
    • Relational data model
      • Comparison of relational and atomic models
    • NoSQL
    • Document-oriented DBMS
  • Conclusion
  • Literature