Recent Progress in Uncertainty Measures
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 March 2026 | Viewed by 97
Special Issue Editors
Interests: uncertain information fusion; belief function theory
Interests: uncertainty measure; Shannon entropy; Tsallis entropy; Renyi entropy; Deng entropy; evidence theory; fuzzy sets; fractal; complex network; time series
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Dear Colleagues,
Quantifying uncertainty is one of the crucial issues in information or intelligence systems, in which two types of uncertainties, stochastic uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty, together constitute the total uncertainty. The question of how to measure epistemic and total uncertainty in still an unsolved problem in many uncertainty reasoning theories, for example, fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, possibility theory, belief function theory, imprecise probability theory, and so forth, although there have been many advances in the research of uncertainty measures in these theories ,with unremitting efforts by related research communities. Especially, entropy-like definitions have been extensively involved in a large number of uncertainty measures, but axiomatic properties are not justified strictly in most of those. Justifications for the uncertainty measures, whether theoretical derivations in mathematics or essential requirements from applications, are required, similar as what has been performed for Shannon entropy, Renyi entropy, and Tsallis entropy.
This Special Issue aims to be a forum for the presentation of theoretical breakthroughs, improvement in methods, and progress in applications in the research of uncertainty measures in various uncertainty reasoning theories. In particular, studies on stochastic uncertainty based on Shannon entropy, Renyi entropy, Tsallis entropy, etc., fall within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Xinyang Deng
Prof. Dr. Yong Deng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epistemic uncertainty
- entropy and extropy
- information theory
- Deng entropy
- plausibility entropy
- fuzzy entropy
- uncertainty reasoning
- uncertain information fusion
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