[Panda-webmaster] New book "Probabilistic Information Transfer" by Olga Zeydina and Bernard Beauzamy

[Société de Calcul Mathématique]

Dear Sir, dear Madam,

We are happy to inform you that the book:

"Probabilistic Information Transfer"

by Olga Zeydina and Bernard Beauzamy

is now available. It is hardbound, with 208 pages, and it is intended to become a reference book, which should last for a long time: you will be happy to have it and to offer it.

Description of the book:

In real life situations, one never has an information as complete as one wishes: the information is often incomplete or corrupted. But, conversely, one often has sparse data. So, there is a natural need: use the information one has in order to reconstruct the missing one. But this should be done with two rules in mind:

-	One should not add any artificial information, such as model assumptions (assume that some growth is linear, that some law is Gaussian, and so on);

-	The result must be of probabilistic nature: we do not want a precise value (which is meaningless), but a probability law with confidence intervals: this is what Safety Authorities usually request.

This is precisely the topic of this book. We show how to "propagate" the information, from a situation where it exists to a situation where it is needed. The propagated information deteriorates with the distance, the same way as a gravitational field decreases with the distance.

The book is organized in three parts: the first one presents the basic construction, and is accessible with no specific knowledge in probabilities. The second one presents real life applications and the third part develops the mathematical theory.

This theory comes from a situation which is rather rare these days: a new mathematical theory, entirely developed by SCM in order to meet a need which was originally expressed by the Industry, namely Framatome ANP (today Areva) in 2003. Since then, the tool was used in many cases: classifying  industrial objects (Air Liquide), evaluation of pollutions (Total), estimates for water quality in European rivers (European Environment Agency), applications to the safety of nuclear reactors (Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire), and so on.

The book may be bought on line. For more details, please visit:
http://scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_PIT_order.htm

With best regards,

Prof. Bernard Beauzamy
Chairman and CEO
Societe de Calcul Mathematique SA
111 Faubourg Saint Honore, 75008 Paris, France
www.scmsa.eu

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