Complexity Measures in Decomposable Structures
Опубликовано на портале: 28-05-2008
2002
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This paper presents some measures of complexity of decomposable structures. The literature
on complexity is reviewed and then the distinction among different measures of complexity
is discussed. At first, a broad definition of complex systems is provided and the
main characteristics of such systems are described briefly. Then, two particular
kinds of measures are considered. The first group is based on information theory
and deals with the concept of entropy. This index refers to the amount of information
that we need in order to understand what is happening within a system. The authors
claim that the entropy measure focuses only on the information complexity of a system
without taking account of the interdependencies existing among the components. And
finally, it was discussed the usefulness of both entropy and Kauffmans K value as
appropriate measures of the complexity of decomposable structures.
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