Entropy (May 2021)

Fractional Deng Entropy and Extropy and Some Applications

  • Mohammad Reza Kazemi,
  • Saeid Tahmasebi,
  • Francesco Buono,
  • Maria Longobardi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050623
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 5
p. 623

Abstract

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Deng entropy and extropy are two measures useful in the Dempster–Shafer evidence theory (DST) to study uncertainty, following the idea that extropy is the dual concept of entropy. In this paper, we present their fractional versions named fractional Deng entropy and extropy and compare them to other measures in the framework of DST. Here, we study the maximum for both of them and give several examples. Finally, we analyze a problem of classification in pattern recognition in order to highlight the importance of these new measures.

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