Information Vagueness

Dear colleagues,

The information that we generate, process, and communicate is anything but perfect. Very often, information is imprecise, inaccurate, and uncertain, and we are left with the choice of ignoring these issues or managing them. More and more attention is being paid by the literature to information vagueness, both from theoretical and applied perspectives, and this will only increase as we generate larger sets of data and mine information sources in automatic or semi-automatic manners. However, the systematic management of information vagueness is still in its infancy, especially in some fields such as the humanities, and clear theories, methodologies, and technologies are still needed.

This Special Issue of Information attempts to further this field by focusing on how information vagueness affects current information technologies, how these technologies should be changed to cater for vague information, and how information vagueness may be used for research. Relevant areas of interest are theoretical approaches to vagueness (from philosophy, software engineering, social sciences, or humanities); methodologies for detecting, characterising, measuring, or processing vague data (in disciplines such as biology, archaeology, history, heritage management, or engineering); the connections between vagueness and other issues such as quality or usability; technologies for implementing vague information (such as databases, fuzzy logic, probabilistic models, etc.); and approaches to studying the social and sociotechnical impacts of vagueness in information systems.

We hope that this initiative is of interest to you, and we look forward to your submissions.

Dr. Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
Dr. Martin Pereira-Fariña
Dr. Leticia Tobalina-Pulido
Guest Editors

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• Vagueness
• Uncertainty
• Imprecision
• Inaccuracy
• Error
• Quality
• Ignorance
• Borderline cases
• Epistemology
• Theories of truth