regulating relations with great powers constitutes one of the most significant issues of each country’s foreign policy. iran, the soviet :union: and later russia have failed to establish strategic relations, despite their efforts to enhance mutual relations since late 1980s. it is believed that iran found it politically expedient to have ties with moscow due to its disputed relations with the w...

We discuss some of the recent literature on relations between information and estimation theoretic quantities. We begin by exploring the connections between mutual information and causal/non-causal, matched/mismatched estimation for the setting of a continuous source corrupted by white Gaussian noise. Relations involving causal estimation, in both matched and mismatched cases, and mutual inform...