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This paper provides a precise and scientific definition of complexity and coupling, grounded in the functional domain, particularly within industrial control and automation systems (iCAS). We highlight the widespread ambiguity in defining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Aydin Homay

The intuition that a long history is required for the emergence of complexity in natural systems is formalized using the notion of depth. The depth of a system is defined in terms of the number of parallel computational steps needed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 J. Machta

Complex systems are found in most branches of science. It is still argued how to best quantify their complexity and to what end. One prominent measure of complexity (the statistical complexity) has an operational meaning in terms of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-24 Karoline Wiesner , Mile Gu , Elisabeth Rieper , Vlatko Vedral

The concept of complexity as considered in terms of its algorithmic definition proposed by G.J. Chaitin and A.N. Kolmogorov is revisited for the dynamical complexity of music. When music pieces are cast in the form of time series of pitch…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-23 Jean Pierre Boon

Complex systems and their underlying convoluted networks are ubiquitous, all we need is an eye for them. They pose problems of organized complexity which cannot be approached with a reductionist method. Complexity science and its emergent…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Massimo Franceschet

In this paper we examine the concept of complexity as it applies to generative and evolutionary art and design. Complexity has many different, discipline specific definitions, such as complexity in physical systems (entropy), algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella

We contemplate the notion of ambiguity in mathematical discourse. We consider a general method of resolving ambiguity and semantic options for sustaining a resolution. The general discussion is applied to the case of `fraction' which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jan A Bergstra , John V Tucker

In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

Query complexity measures the amount of information an algorithm needs about a problem to compute a solution. On a quantum computer there are different realizations of a query and we will show that these are not always equivalent. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvid J. Bessen

While we have intuitive notions of structure and complexity, the formalization of this intuition is non-trivial. The statistical complexity is a popular candidate. It is based on the idea that the complexity of a process can be quantified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Ryan Tan , Daniel R. Terno , Jayne Thompson , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

This is an essay about understanding complexity science, via some peculiarities of the field, as a meeting place for a special kind of scientist. It comes out of my hobby of reading popular-science complex systems books, and builds on notes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-12 Petter Holme

Concepts used in the scientific study of complex systems have become so widespread that their use and abuse has led to ambiguity and confusion in their meaning. In this paper we use information theory to provide abstract and concise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Carlos Gershenson , Nelson Fernandez

Entropy always increases monotonically in a closed system but complexity increases at first and then decreases as equilibrium is approached. Commonsense information-related definitions for entropy and complexity demonstrate that complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Theodore Modis

We present several philosophical ideas emerging from the studies of complex systems. We make a brief introduction to the basic concepts of complex systems, for then defining "abstraction levels". These are useful for representing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Gershenson

Complementarity was originally introduced as a qualitative concept for the discussion of properties of quantum mechanical objects that are classically incompatible. More recently, complementarity has become a \emph{quantitative} relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Dieter Suter , Jiangfeng Du , Maili Liu , Kelin Gao

We define the algorithmic complexity of a quantum state relative to a given precision parameter, and give upper bounds for various examples of states. We also establish a connection between the entanglement of a quantum state and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Caterina Mora , Hans Briegel

We introduce a hierarchy of fast-growing complexity classes and show its suitability for completeness statements of many non elementary problems. This hierarchy allows the classification of many decision problems with a non-elementary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Sylvain Schmitz

The best way to model, understand, and quantify the information contained in complex systems is an open question in physics, mathematics, and computer science. The uncertain relationship between entropy and complexity further complicates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Stephen Casey

The problem of defining and studying complexity of a time series has interested people for years. In the context of dynamical systems, Grassberger has suggested that a slow approach of the entropy to its extensive asymptotic limit is a sign…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 William Bialek , Ilya Nemenman , Naftali Tishby

One of the most fundamental problems in science is to define {\it quantitatively} the complexity of organized matters, i.e., {\it organized complexity}. Although many measures have been proposed toward this aim in previous decades, there is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Tatsuaki Okamoto