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What is computable with limited resources? How can we verify the correctness of computations? How to measure computational power with precision? Despite the immense scientific and engineering progress in computing, we still have only…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Attila Egri-Nagy

Data clustering is the process of identifying natural groupings or clusters within multidimensional data based on some similarity measure. Clustering is a fundamental process in many different disciplines. Hence, researchers from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Sibei Yang , Liangde Tao , Bingchen Gong

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 complexity of a system description is a function of the entropy of its symbolic description. Prior to computing the entropy of the system description, an observation scale has to be assumed. In natural language texts, typical scales are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Gerardo Febres , Klaus Jaffe

One may define a complex system as a system in which phenomena emerge as a consequence of multiscale interaction among the system's components and their environments. The field of Complex Systems is the study of such systems--usually…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Russ Abbott

We study the complexity of computational problems from quantum physics. Typically, they are studied using the complexity class QMA (quantum counterpart of NP) but some natural computational problems appear to be slightly harder than QMA. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Andris Ambainis

A practical measure for the complexity of sequences of symbols (``strings'') is introduced that is rooted in automata theory but avoids the problems of Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity. This physical complexity can be estimated for ensembles…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Adami , N. J. Cerf

The fast changing reality in technical and natural domains perceived by always more accurate observations has drawn attention on new and very broad class of systems with specific behaviour represented under the common wording complexity.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-06 Michel Cotsaftis

We introduce a complexity measure for symbolic sequences. Starting from a segmentation procedure of the sequence, we define its complexity as the entropy of the distribution of lengths of the domains of relatively uniform composition in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ana P. Majtey , Ramon Roman-Roldan , Pedro W. Lamberti

Statistical depth is the act of gauging how representative a point is compared to a reference probability measure. The depth allows introducing rankings and orderings to data living in multivariate, or function spaces. Though widely applied…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 George Wynne , Stanislav Nagy

We aim at studying collections of algebraic structures defined over a commutative ring and investigating the complexity of significant constructions carried out on these objects. The assignment of measures of size, via a multiplicity…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Wolmer V. Vasconcelos

Several concepts on the measure of observability, reachability, and robustness are defined and illustrated for both linear and nonlinear control systems. Defined by using computational dynamic optimization, these concepts are applicable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-17 Wei Kang , Liang Xu

We explore a definition of complexity based on logic functions, which are widely used as compact descriptions of rules in diverse fields of contemporary science. Detailed numerical analysis shows that (i) logic complexity is effective in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-03-11 Marco Gherardi , Pietro Rotondo

Symmetry is conventionally described in a contrariety manner that the system is either completely symmetric or completely asymmetric. Using group theoretical approach to overcome this dichotomous problem, we introduce the degree of symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Y. N. Fang , G. H. Dong , D. L. Zhou , C. P. Sun

The paper describes an approach to measuring convergence of an algorithm to its result in terms of an entropy-like function of partitions of its inputs of a given length. The goal is to look at the algorithmic data processing from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Anatol Slissenko

We study entropy-bounded computational geometry, that is, geometric algorithms whose running times depend on a given measure of the input entropy. Specifically, we introduce a measure that we call range-partition entropy, which unifies and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-29 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Abraham M. Illickan , Claire A. To

This paper reviews connections between physics and computation, and explores their implications. The main topics are computational "hardness" of physical systems, computational status of fundamental theories, quantum computation, and the…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph Shipman

The science of complexity is far from being fully understood and even its foundations are not well established. On the other hand, during the last decade, the random motion of particles or waves - the so-called diffusion - has been known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-14 Guilherme R. Rezende , Luciano C. Lapas , Fernando A. Oliveira

We need much better understanding of information processing and computation as its primary form. Future progress of new computational devices capable of dealing with problems of big data, internet of things, semantic web, cognitive robotics…

General Literature · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Mark Burgin , Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Computation is commonly defined as the execution of abstract algorithms over symbolic representations, with physical systems treated as substrates that realise predefined operations. While effective for engineered machines, this separation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-21 Kimia Witte