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A GENERAL
CLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION
AND SYSTEMS
M. VALDMA
Nowadays the different forms of information are used beginning with
deterministic information and finishing with fuzzy information. This paper presents
a four-level hierarchical classification of information. The first level of
hierarchy is deterministic information, the second
one – probabilistic information, the third
one – uncertain-deterministic and uncertain-probabilistic
information, and the fourth level is fuzzy-deterministic and
fuzzy-probabilistic information. Each following level has to be considered more
general than the previous one. The scheme is very simple, but its applications
will be immeasurable. An analogical scheme is described for classifying systems
and different objects and phenomena.
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