The Mathematical Theory of Semantic Communication

• Main Authors: Niu, Kai, Zhang, Ping
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2025
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
• Subjects: Coding theory and cryptology; Communication Technology; Communications engineering / telecommunications; Computer hardware; Computing and Information Technology; Electronics and communications engineering; Information Measurement; Information theory; Network hardware; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; Semantic Communication; Semantic Information Theory; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Theoretical Frameworks

This Open Access Book explores how classical information theory’s focus on syntactic information has limited the further development of communication science. Recently, communication technologies that handle and transmit semantic information have gained widespread attention in academia. Semantic com...