Some results on generalized residual entropy

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-47

  Nanda, Asok K ^a   Paul, Prasanta ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Directed information distance; DURL class and IURL class; Measure of information; Minimal repair; Residual entropy; System improvement and deterioration

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS;

DIRECTED INFORMATION DISTANCE; DURL CLASS AND IURL CLASS; MEASURE OF INFORMATION; MINIMAL REPAIR; RESIDUAL ENTROPY; SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT AND DETERIORATION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 25644443798     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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