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Exploration of the nature of human communication and the media is a
pre requisite to any assessment of the likely future role of
communications . . We cannot assume that the nature of these things
is transparently obvious to everyone and therefore commonly
understood. Three developments in recent decades should adequately
warn against such an assumption. First, we had the fiasco of social
scientists trying to apply Shannon's mathematical theory of
information as if it were a theory of human communication. 'In
Shannon's use of information we cannot speak of how much
information a person has only how much a message has. ' (Ackoff and
Emery, 1972, p. 145). They would not have wandered into that blind
alley if they had stopped to think about the nature of human
communication. Second was the belated but wholehearted acceptance
of the Heider theory of balance and its subse quent wane. Its wane
had nothing to do with its inherent merits. It waned because it
could not survive on the Procrustean bed of the psychologists'
theory of choice. It did not occur to the psychologists to question
their as sumptions about how people made the choices that lead to
purposeful com munication (Ackoff and Emery, 1972, p. 58). The last
example has been the bitter and unended furore about McLuhan. This
time the psychologists and sociologists haye been strangely quiet
but we can be sure this does not imply acquiescence in McLuhan's
views."
Researchers and graduate students in the theory of stochastic
processes will find in this 35th volume some thirty articles on
martingale theory, martingales and finance, analytical inequalities
and semigroups, stochastic differential equations, functionals of
Brownian motion and of L vy processes. Ledoux's article contains a
self-contained introduction to the use of semigroups in spectral
gaps and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities; the contribution by
Emery and Schachermayer includes an exposition for probabilists of
Vershik's theory of backward discrete filtrations.
This volume contains 19 contributions to various subjects in the theory of (commutative and non-commutative) stochastic processes. It also provides a 145-page graduate course on branching and interacting particle systems, with applications to non-linear filtering, by P. del Moral and L. Miclo.
Besides topics traditionally found in the Seminaire de Probabilites
(Martingale Theory, Stochastic Processes, questions of general
interest in Probability Theory), this volume XXXIII presents nine
contributions to the study of filtrations up to isomorphism. It
also contains three graduate courses: Dynamics of stochastic
algorithms, by M. Benaim; Simulated annealing algorithms and Markov
chains with rare transitions, by O. Catoni; and Concentration of
measure and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, by M. Ledoux. These
up to date courses present the state of the art in three matters of
interest to students in theoretical or applied Probability Theory,
and to researchers as well.
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