A Shannon's theory of knowledge

Benoît Le Blanc () and Jean-Louis Ermine ()
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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]

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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…).

Keywords: Knowledge; Knowledge management; Shannon's theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Suliman Hawamdeh. Creating collaborative advantage through knowledge and innovation, 5, World Scientific Publishing Company, pp.51-67, 2007, Series on Innovation and Knowledge Management, 978-981-270-451-1. ⟨10.1142/9789812707482_0004⟩

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812707482_0004

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