Information Processing Task
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An Information Processing Task is a task that requires the conversion of latent information into manifest information.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Complex Information-Processing Task (e.g. human-level) to being a Simple Information-Processing Task.
- It can range from being an Information-Processing Micro-Task to being an Information-Processing Macro-Task.
- It can be solved by an Information Processing System (that implements an information processing algorithm).
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See Cognitive Task, Tacit Knowledge, Explicit Representation.
References
2014
- (Navlakha & Bar-Joseph, 2014) ⇒ Saket Navlakha, and Ziv Bar-Joseph. (2014). “Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 58(1). doi:10.1145/2678280
- QUOTE: Exploring the similarities and differences between distributed computations in biological and computational systems.
Biological systems, ranging from the molecular to the cellular to the organism level, are distributed and in most cases operate without central control. Such systems must solve information processing problems that are often very similar to problems faced by computational systems, including coordinated decision making, 29 leader election, 2 routing and navigation, 52 and more.42
- QUOTE: Exploring the similarities and differences between distributed computations in biological and computational systems.
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing
- Information processing is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process that describes everything that happens (changes) in the universe, from the falling of a rock (a change in position) to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system. In the latter case, an information processor is changing the form of presentation of that text file.
Information processing may more specifically be defined in terms used by Claude E. Shannon as the conversion of latent information into manifest information (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2011). Latent and manifest information is defined through the terms of equivocation (remaining uncertainty, what value the sender has actually chosen), dissipation (uncertainty of the sender what the receiver has actually received), and transformation (saved effort of questioning - equivocation minus dissipation) (Denning and Bell, 2012).
- Information processing is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process that describes everything that happens (changes) in the universe, from the falling of a rock (a change in position) to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system. In the latter case, an information processor is changing the form of presentation of that text file.