Texts in Computer Science. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 978-0-387-33998-6/hbk; 978-0-387-49820-1/ebook). xxiii, 790 p. EUR 60.94 (2008).
See the reviews of the first and second editions (1993;
Zbl 0805.68063 ) and (1997;
Zbl 0866.68051). New key features and topics in the 3rd edition: New results on randomness; Kolmogorov’s structure function, model selection, and MDL; Incompressibility method: counting unlabeled graphs, Shellsort, communication complexity; Derandomization; Kolmogorov complexity versus Shannon information, rate-distortion, lossy compression, denoising; Theoretical results on information distance; The similarity metric with applications to genomics, phylogeny, clustering, classification, semantic meaning, question-answer systems; Quantum Kolmogorov complexity.