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Orthogonality of information structures

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In the mathematical framework of data spaces the paper develops some important general principles of information structuring. These principles are related to the notions of redundancy of information, completeness of a set of access paths, information sharing and compounding, and virtual access to information. The results are relevant to both sequential and concurrent processing.

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  1. Abteilung Informatik der Universität Dortmund, Postfach 500500, D-4600, Dortmund 50, Germany (Fed. Rep.)

    Armin B. Cremers

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, 91103, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Thomas N. Hibbard

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This research is supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-77-C-0536 through the University of Southern California

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Cremers, A.B., Hibbard, T.N. Orthogonality of information structures. Acta Informatica 9, 243–261 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288884

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