ITSL 2008: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Matthias Dehmer, Michael Drmota, Frank Emmert-Streib (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and Statistical Learning, ITSL 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008. CSREA Press 2008, ISBN 1-60132-079-5

Information Theoretic Learning: Theory

Shotaro Akaho, Kazuya Takabatake: Information Geometry of Contrastive Divergence. 3-9
Kazuho Watanabe, Shotaro Akaho, Masato Okada: Clustering on a Subspace of Exponential Family Using Variational Bayes Method. 10-16
Tommi Mononen, Petri Myllymäki: On the Multinomial Stochastic Complexity and its Connection to the Birthday Problem. 17-22
Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong, Mario Gerla, Dapeng Wu: A Randomized Complexity-theoretic Model of Bio-inspired Mobile Epidemics via Close Contact. 23-28
Dyah Erny Herwindiati: The Advantage of Robust Measure For Mining Multivariate Outliers. 29-35
Junfeng Shang: A Diagnostic of Influential Cases Based on the Information Complexity Criteria in Mixed Models. 36-41

Information Theoretic and Communication

Alexander Mehler: A Model of the Distribution of the Distances of Alike Elements in Dialogical Communication. 45-50

Information-Theoretic Aspects of Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra

Matthias Koeppe, Sven Verdoolaege, Kevin Woods: An Implementation of the Barvinok--Woods Integer Projection Algorithm. 53-59
Sven Verdoolaege, Maurice Bruynooghe: Algorithms for Weighted Counting over Parametric Polytopes: A Survey and a Practical Comparison. 60-66
Akimichi Takemura, Patrick Thomas, Ruriko Yoshida: Holes in Semigroups and Their Applications to the Two-way Common Diagonal Effect Model. 67-72
Hidefumi Ohsugi, Takayuki Hibi: Simple Polytopes Arising From Finite Graphs. 73-79
Thomas Bliem: Weight Multiplicities for so5(C). 80-86
Rosa M. Fernández-Alcalá, Jesús Navarro-Moreno, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Molina: A Filtering Algorithm for the Intensity of a Cox Process Using Karhunen-Loève Type Expansions. 87-88

Quantum Information: Theory and Application

Franz-Josef Schmitt: Resolution Limits Of Time And Space Correlated Single Photon Counting (TSCSPC). 92-98
Marius Nagy, Selim G. Akl: Entanglement verification with application to key distribution protocols. 99-105
Markus Müller, Caroline Rogers: Quantum Bit Strings and Prefix-Free Hilbert Spaces. 106-111

Late Papers

Tyrrell B. McAllister: Coefficient functions of the Ehrhart quasi-polynomials of rational polygons. 114-118
Maximilian Kreuzer: On the Statistics of Lattice Polytopes. 119-124
Petri Kontkanen, Petri Myllymäki: An Empirical Comparison of NML Clustering Algorithms. 125-131