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Jarosław Klamut, Ryszard Kutner, Zbigniew R. Struzik
Recently, it has been argued that entropy can be a direct measure of complexity, where the smaller value of entropy indicates lower system complexity, while its larger value indicates higher system complexity. We dispute this view and propose a universal measure of complexity that is based on Gell-Mann’s view of…
Nancy Rebout, Jean-Christophe Lone, Arianna De Marco, Roberto Cozzolino + 2 more
'Roberto Cozzolino' 'Alban Lemasson' 'Bernard Thierry'] While there is no consensus about the definition of complexity, it is widely accepted that the ability to produce uncertainty is the most prominent characteristic of complex systems. We introduce new metrics that purport to quantify the complexity of living…
Tianqi Wu, Haisha Zhang, Kun Wu
Diverse interpretations of the fundamental nature of the world and its evolutionary patterns have shaped multiple paradigms of scientific and philosophical thinking. At the micro level, ontological understandings have evolved from the ancient Greek atomic theory to modern conceptions based on dynamic energy fields. At…
Christian Mayer
It is generally accepted that life requires structural complexity. However, a chaotic mixture of organic compounds like the one formed by extensive reaction sequences over time may be extremely complex, but could just represent a static asphalt-like dead end situation. Likewise, it is accepted that life requires a…
Federico Riva, Caio Graco-Roza, Gergana N. Daskalova, Emma J. Hudgins + 4 more
'Emma J. Hudgins' 'Jayme M.\xa0M. Lewthwaite' 'Erica A. Newman' 'Masahiro Ryo' 'Stefano Mammola'] Ecological systems are quintessentially complex systems. Understanding and being able to predict phenomena typical of complex systems is, therefore, critical to progress in ecology and conservation amidst escalating global…
Pier Luigi Gentili
The goals and targets included in the 2030 Agenda compiled by the United Nations want to stimulate action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the Earth. These goals and targets regard everyone on Earth from both the health and economic and social perspectives. Reaching these goals means to deal with…
Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Yaneer Bar-Yam, António Lopes
Ashby’s law of requisite variety allows a comparison of systems with their environments, providing a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for system efficacy: A system must possess at least as much complexity as any set of environmental behaviors that require distinct responses from the system. However, to account…
Anna Kravchenko, Andrey A Bagrov, Mikhail I Katsnelson, Veronica Dudarev
While intuitive for humans, the concept of visual complexity is hard to define and quantify formally. We suggest adopting the multiscale structural complexity (MSSC) measure, an approach that defines structural complexity of an object as the amount of dissimilarities between distinct scales in its hierarchical…
Frank Emmert-Streib, Matthias Dehmer, Alex J. Cannon
The characterization and the definition of the complexity of objects is an important but very difficult problem that attracted much interest in many different fields. In this paper we introduce a new measure, called network diversity score (NDS), which allows us to quantify structural properties of networks. We…
Frank Emmert-Streib, Enrico Scalas
Background The evaluation of the complexity of an observed object is an old but outstanding problem. In this paper we are tying on this problem introducing a measure called statistic complexity. Methodology/Principal Findings This complexity measure is different to all other measures in the following senses. First, it…
Avi Ma'ayan
Complex systems theory is concerned with identifying and characterizing common design elements that are observed across diverse natural, technological and social complex systems. Systems biology, a more holistic approach to study molecules and cells in biology, has advanced rapidly in the past two decades. However, not…
Haoyu Wang, Changqing Song, Peichao Gao, Javier Borge-Holthoefer
Complexity and entropy play crucial roles in understanding dynamic systems across various disciplines. Many intuitively perceive them as distinct measures and assume that they have a concave-down relationship. In everyday life, there is a common consensus that while entropy never decreases, complexity does decrease…
Stuart M. Marshall, Alastair R. G. Murray, Leroy Cronin
One thing that discriminates living things from inanimate matter is their ability to generate similarly complex or non-random structures in a large abundance. From DNA sequences to folded protein structures, living cells, microbial communities and multicellular structures, the material configurations in biology can…
Benjamin Scharte
The concept of resilience intrinsically links with both complexity and adaptive capacity. Scholars from different fields agree on this. Still, the detailed relations between resilience, complexity, and adaptive capacity need a more thorough theoretical analysis. This article analyses resilience with the help of…