ITLab: A flexible and user-friendly Information Theory Online-Lab based on Java Technology - CORE CORE Search Search Services Access to raw data API Dataset FastSync Content discovery Recommender Discovery Managing content Repository dashboard Support FAQs About About CORE Blog Contact us ITLab: A flexible and user-friendly Information Theory Online-Lab based on Java Technology By Thorsten Hehn, Susan Linke-wangerow, Johannes B. Huber and Th April Get PDF (157 KB) Abstract Usually, information theory is regarded as being a very difficult subject. Therefore we propose a novel information theory online-lab based on Java technology, which allows participants to conduct easy to advanced experiments helping them to understand the fundamentalconcepts of information theory and thus gain insight in complicated topics. Our approach includes a novel kind of user interface imposing almost no restrictions on the setup of an experiment. This makes it easy to analyze the behavior of each used component (e.g. information sources or channels) and keep track of internal procedures, for example the learning phase of an universal source encoder. To support users who are just about to do their first steps in the lab, there are an online-tutorial and many predefined setups available. The proposed lab is flexible enough to serve students as well 1 as interested visitors to immerse themselves deeply in the field of information theory. It can handle advanced topics, and due to its modular conception, additional components can be included in a very straightforward way. Because of these properties it can also be used by researchers for a first estimate of how a novelidea might work, even in a whole simulation line. As ITLab is free and publicly available online, it contributes to the community development, not only by improving education of engineering students, but also in making information theory comprehensible for the public Topics: Information Theory, Online-lab, Java Year: 2013 OAI identifier: oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.323.4944 Provided by: CiteSeerX Downloaded from http://www.lit.lnt.de/papers/ifee_2006_hehn.pdf Suggested articles To submit an update or takedown request for this paper, please submit an Update/Correction/Removal Request. Useful links Blog Services About CORE Contact us Cookies Privacy notice Writing about CORE? Discover our research outputs and cite our work. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by the Open University and Jisc.
