Entropy of Hidden Markov Processes and Connections to Dynamical SystemsPapers from the Banff International Research Station Workshop
Ed. Brian Marcus;Karl Petersen;Tsachy Weissman
The mathematics of hidden Markov processes (HMPs) can be applied to many kinds of noise-related technologies, from speech and optical character recognition to biomolecular sequence analysis. This collection of nine papers from a 2007 workshop at the Banff International Research Station covers the entropy rate problem, or measure of randomness, of HMPs, with reference to informational theory, dynamical systems, statistical mechanics and probability theory.