• DocumentCode
    2993089
  • Title

    On axiomatization of conditional entropy of functions between finite sets

  • Author

    Jaroszewicz, Szymon ; Simovici, Dan A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    24
  • Lastpage
    28
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a new axiomatization of the notion of entropy of functions between finite sets and we introduce and axiomatize the notion of conditional entropy between functions. The results can be directly applied to logic functions, which can be regarded as functions between finite sets. Our axiomatizations are based on properties of entropy with regard to operations commonly applied to discrete functions and are related to the usage of entropy as a measure of the energy dissipated by circuits that implement discrete functions
  • Keywords
    formal logic; axiomatization; conditional entropy; entropy of functions; finite sets; logic functions; Boolean functions; Circuits; Energy measurement; Entropy; Logic functions; Minimization; Power dissipation; Random variables;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multiple-Valued Logic, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 29th IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Freiburg
  • ISSN
    0195-623X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0161-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISMVL.1999.779690
  • Filename
    779690