A Shannon's theory of knowledge

Benoît Le Blanc (1) , Jean-Louis Ermine (2)

1 IDC - Institut de Cognitique
2 IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information

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…).

Mots clés: Knowledge; Knowledge management; Shannon's theory

Domaines: Gestion et management

Benoît Le Blanc, Jean-Louis Ermine. A Shannon's theory of knowledge. 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⟩. ⟨hal-00470413⟩