An Exposure to Possibilistic Restriction Based Information Analysis Schema

Abstract

In literature pertaining to Information theory, there is always a contest between importance of information or meaning. Shannon in his classical paper argued that only syntactic aspects are necessary in information communication, which is very well known as Classical information theory. However, when one considers a hybrid system which has human and machine sub-parts, then the syntactic and semantic, both parts of information become vital. In his recent paper Zadeh states that information is equivalent to a restriction and thus it can be represented as probabilistic and possibilistic restrictions, which can be modified to represent both aspects of information (content + meaning) in a hybrid system. In this paper we discuss some important results on our research on possibilistic modeling of semantic information. We also present a schema for information analysis for hybrid system based on the defined measures.