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A Shannon's theory of knowledge

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  • Benoît Le Blanc

    (IDC - Institut de Cognitique - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique)

  • Jean-Louis Ermine

    (IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris])

Abstract

Our so-called "Information Society" is gradually changing into a "Knowledge Society". The Shannon's Theory provided a formal and mathematical framework for information. It was very fruitful for avoiding ambiguity on the concept of information. This paper proposes a transposition of this theory for knowledge. From the three axes of a formal model designed for knowledge engineering (information, sense and context), three quantitative measures are proposed to get a measure of the quantity of knowledge of a system. This notion permits to consider applications as the cognitive measure of a web site, of a knowledge community (community of practice…).

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  • Benoît Le Blanc & Jean-Louis Ermine, 2007. "A Shannon's theory of knowledge," Post-Print hal-00470413, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00470413
    DOI: 10.1142/9789812707482_0004
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