中文摘要：

本文介绍了软件领域中的各种熵的基本概念及其应用,系统地归纳总结了信息熵在软件领域中的国内外研究现状,发现图像处理、模式识别与工人智能、网络与信息安全、数据挖掘等是信息熵的几个热点应用领域,最后指出用信息熵理论和方法研究软件项目管理是一个值得深入探索的问题。

英文摘要：

This paper introduces sundry entropy concepts and their applications, reviews culxent situation of information entropy in software domain, and finds the hotspots mainly lie in image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, network and information security, data mining, etc. Finally, the paper points out that the study of software project management using information entropy is a problem which deserved serious consideration.