Information Flow and Its Applications 1 Executive Summary

Samson Abramsky, Jean Krivine, Michael Mislove, Samson Abramsky, Jean Krivine, Michael Mislove, Samson Abramsky, Jean Krivine, Michael Mislove
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This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12352 "Information Flow and Its Applications". This seminar brought together mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and researchers from related disciplines such as computational biology who are working on problems concerning information and information flow. License Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported license © Samson Abramsky, Jean Krivine, and Michael W. Mislove The seminar "Information Flow and Its
more » ... s" that took place in Schloss Dagstuhl in August 2012, has been the latest in a series of meetings concerning information flow that began with the 2008 Clifford Lectures by Samson Abramsky at Tulane University, and continued with two further meetings on informatic phenomena at Tulane, as well as a previous Dagstuhl seminar on "The Semantics of Information" 1. The seminar "Information Flow and Its Applications" brought together mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and researchers from related disciplines such as computational biology who are working on problems concerning information and information flow. The seminar gathered 21 participants in addition to the 3 organizers, in the studious but cosy atmosphere of Schloss Dagstuhl. Armed with slides and chalks, each speaker described in terms as simple as can be, the questions and problems they were trying to solve, which, as the title of the seminar suggests, had all in common the issue of the representation and analysis of information flows. The hypothesis underlying the organization of the seminar was the following: information flows leave on substrates which transport and transform data along time and space. From the modeling, analysis or simulation of these substrates will emerge unifying techniques or 1
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