Kybernetika 49 no. 3, 433-445, 2013

Information in vague data source

Milan Mareš and Radko Mesiar

Abstract:

This paper deals with the concept of the "size" or "extent" of the information in the sense of measuring the improvement of our knowledge after obtaining a message. Standard approaches are based on the probabilistic parameters of the considered information source. Here we deal with situations when the unknown probabilities are subjectively or vaguely estimated. For the considered fuzzy quantities valued probabilities we introduce and discuss information theoretical concepts.

Keywords:

entropy, triangular norm, alphabet, information, data source, fuzziness

Classification:

03E72, 94A17

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