Complexity

Details Complexity Complexity

2010-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5947v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

To be published in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (Springer)

Scientific paper

There is no single definition of complexity (Edmonds 1999; Gershenson 2008; Mitchell 2009), as it acquires different meanings in different contexts. A general notion is the amount of information required to describe a phenomenon (Prokopenko et al. 2008), but it can also be understood as the length of the shortest program required to compute that description, as the time required to compute that description, as the minimal model to statistically describe a phenomenon, etc.

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