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What is Formal System

Chapter 274
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
A language plus a set of transformation rules, which one can use to model external phenomena.
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Self-Normalizing Distance Learning Tools
Eduardo Costa (Utah State University, USA), Reny Cury (UFU/CNPq, Brazil), and Junia Magellan (Utah State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch274
Abstract
Communication system designers minimize noise with self-correcting codes that add redundant information to the signal, increasing the probability of error detection, and recovery of the uncorrupted data. Evolutionary biologists claim that knowledge transmitted between generations of biological organisms have mechanisms that create probability traps for errors. Designers of online systems are starting to mimic these systems.
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