Measuring information beyond communication theory: Some probably useful and some almost certainly useless generalizations

摘要

Non-communication models for information theory: games and experiments. Measures of uncertainty and information: entropies, divergences, information improvements. Some useful properties of information measures, symmetry, bounds, behaviour under composition, branching, conditional measures, sources. Rényi measures, measures of higher degree. Promising and not so promising generalizations. Measures which depend not just upon the probabilities but (also) upon the object matters.