A SHANNON'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

Benoît Le Blanc and Jean-Louis Ermine
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Benoît Le Blanc: Institut de Cognitique, Université de Bordeaux 2, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France
Jean-Louis Ermine: Institut National des Télécommunications, 91011 Evry cedex, France

Chapter 4 in Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation, 2007, pp 51-67 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractOur 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…).

Keywords: Collaboration Innovation; Knowledge Creation; Relationship; Social Networks; Knowledge Discovery; Knowledge Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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