Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2801, Issue , 2003, Pages 553-563

  Zuidema, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOPOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION; PROCESSING MECHANISM; STRUCTURED LANGUAGES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPOSITIONALITY; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL SPACES; STRUCTURED LANGUAGE;

EID: 7444251793     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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