Entropy, Utility, and Logical Reasoning
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2015) | Viewed by 45502
Special Issue Editor
Interests: entropy; probability theory; utility theory; Bayesian analysis; decision making; maximum entropy methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Two major achievements in science were published immediately after the Second World War and have significantly changed our understanding of uncertainty and the rules of logical reasoning: Shannon’s entropy measure (Shannon 1948) and von Neumann-Morgenstern’s utility theory (von Neumann and Morgenstern 1947). At the time, both concepts appeared to be significantly different, and were taught independently in different fields. However, the merger of both entropy and utility has introduced powerful new methodologies for characterizing preferences with partial information, inferring adversary preferences, identifying rules of logical reasoning for individuals and groups, and providing new interpretations for numerous areas in physics, engineering, artificial intelligence, and the arts and sciences.
In this special issue on “Entropy, Utility, and Logical Reasoning” we seek contributions that will shed further light on the merger of utility and entropy and their connections with the rules of thought and logical reasoning. The scope of the contributions will be very broad to include philosophical discussions, theoretical derivations and solutions to practical problems. Papers highlighting new interpretations, connections, and dualities between entropy and utility using functional equations are especially welcome.
Prof. Dr. Ali E. Abbas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- entropy
- utility
- logical reasoning
- probability
- inference
- duality
- decision analysis
- game theory
- bayes rule
- machine learning
- data mining
- functional equations
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