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Generalized Theory of Uncertainty (GTU) – Principal Concepts and Ideas

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Part of the book series: Advances in Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 37))

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Uncertainty is an attribute of information. The path-breaking work of Shannon has led to a universal acceptance of the thesis that information is statistical in nature. Concomitantly, existing theories of uncertainty are based on probability theory. The generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU) departs from existing theories in essential ways. First, the thesis that information is statistical in nature is replaced by a much more general thesis that information is a generalized constraint, with statistical uncertainty being a special, albeit important case. Equating information to a generalized constraint is the fundamental thesis of GTU.

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  1. Department of EECS, University of California, 94720-1776, Berkeley, CA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

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  1. AI Group Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Lawry

  2. Statistics and Operations Research, Rey Juan Carlos University, C-Tulip˙n s/n MÛstoles28933, Spain

    Enrique Miranda

  3. Intelligent Systems Group Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Alberto Bugarin

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing University of Technology, 100022, Beijing, P.R. China

    Shoumei Li

  5. Dpto. Estadistica e I.O y D.M. Calle Calvo Sotelo s/n, Universiad de Oviedo Fac. Ciencias, 33071, Oviedo, Spain

    Maria Angeles Gil

  6. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Przemys aw Grzegorzewski

  7. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Olgierd Hyrniewicz

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Zadeh, L.A. (2006). Generalized Theory of Uncertainty (GTU) – Principal Concepts and Ideas. In: Lawry, J., et al. Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34777-1_1

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