Measuring information beyond communication theory - why some generalized information measures may be useful, others not

DOI10.1007/BF02192655MaRDI QIDQ799647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors János Aczél

Publication date 1984

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/137008

zbMATH Keywords

economicsexperimentsgames

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations for functions with more general domains and/or ranges (39B52) Functional equations and inequalities (39B99) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to information and communication theory (94-02) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Review text

Examples of applications of information measures outside communication theory are given (games, experiments, economics, etc.). A case is made against generalization of information measures and characterizations for generalization's sake - then a generalization is presented for the sake of acknowledging the possibility of information measures depending not just upon the probabilities, but also upon the events themselves or upon other parameters of the events too (the inset measures of information [see e.g. the author and \textit{Z. Daróczy}, RAIRO Inf. Théor. 12, 149- 155 (1978; Zbl 0382.94012); the author and \textit{Pl. Kannappan}, Inf. Control 39, 315-322 (1978; Zbl 0393.94011); the author, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 75, 447-453 (1980; Zbl 0442.94004); Publ. Elektroteh. Fak., Univ. Beogr., Ser. Mat. Fiz. 602-633, 65-72 (1978; Zbl 0442.94005)]). This paper grew out of an invited talk presented at an Atlanta information theory meeting. A previous version has appeared recently in the proceedings of that meeting in Inf. Process. Manage. 20, 383-395 (1984; Zbl 0546.94004).

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