It is assumed that observations among an iid sample falling into certain subsets of the sample space cannot be observed directly, but only through their frequencies. Bounds for the corresponding loss of information are established, which are based on the Hellinger distance between the empirical...

Several authors have observed that in interactive decision frameworks, welfare is not monotonic with information in the sense that more information can make agents worse off. This contrasts with Blackwell’s comparison of statistical experiments in which more information can only make the...

Over the past century, there is an increased contribution of non climatic factors to the flood formation processes in the Kura River. Non climatic factors of floods refer to factors that are related to reductions in channel capacity and result in floods. More recently, there are numerous non...

The empowerment formalism offers a goal-independent utility function fully derived from an agent's embodiment. It produces intrinsic motivations which can be used to generate self-organizing behaviors in agents. One obstacle to the application of empowerment in more demanding (esp. continuous)...