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A Shannon'S Theory Of Knowledge

In: Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge And Innovation

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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)

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," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Suliman Hawamdeh (ed.), Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge And Innovation, chapter 4, pages 51-67, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812707482_0004
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