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10.3390/fis2010-00302

This submission belongs to the session fis. FIS 2010 of the event The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science

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04 Jul, 2010

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Zhanqi Duan, The Emergence and Development of Theoretical Informatics, in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, 21 August–24 August 2010, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/fis2010-00302

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The Emergence and Development of Theoretical Informatics

Zhanqi Duan ¹

1. Zhanqi Duan, Hong Gao, Xinzheng Jin

Abstract

At present, information technology is developing very rapidly. Numerous traditional disciplines have to be informationized and domain informatics derived from it. It calls for the emergence of theoretical informatics because of the need of domain informatics, National Informatization and the transformation of industrial society to an information society. However, present information theory has limitation, for example, the Shannon communication theory only applies to communications. In this paper, we use the system engineering theory. Firstly we study the background of the theoretical informatics. Secondly we analyze the status of it and the limitation of present information theory. And then we discuss the hotspots of the theoretical informatics both at home and abroad. At last, we point out that the development of it should break out the shackles of theoretical paradigms.

Keywords

Theoretical Informatics

Domain Informatics

Shannon Communication Theory

Unified Information Theory

Researches on Three Laws of Theoretical Informatics

Foundations for Science of Information: Reflection on the Method of Inquiry