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With the developments in machine learning, there has been a surge in interest and results focused on algorithms utilizing predictions, not least in online algorithms where most new results incorporate the prediction aspect for concrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Magnus Berg , Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical thinking and its intrinsic drawbacks when…

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

In classification problems, especially those that categorize data into a large number of classes, the classes often naturally follow a hierarchical structure. That is, some classes are likely to share similar structures and features. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell

This is a very basic introduction to some notions related to logic and complexity.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Semmes

In this article we undertake a study of extension complexity from the perspective of formal languages. We define a natural way to associate a family of polytopes with binary languages. This allows us to define the notion of extension…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hans Raj Tiwary

Hierarchy is one of the most conspicuous features of numerous natural, technological and social systems. The underlying structures are typically complex and their most relevant organizational principle is the ordering of the ties among the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

Classification theory of elementary classes deals with first order (elementary) classes of structures (i.e. fixing a set T of first order sentences, we investigate the class of models of T with the elementary submodel notion). It tries to…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-03-23 Saharon Shelah

We introduce Hausdorff (complexity) classes, which provide canonical characterizations of the intermediate levels of the iterated exponential hierarchies, including the Polynomial Hierarchy, the (Weak) Exponential Hierarchy, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Enrico Malizia

If a concept is not well defined, there are grounds for its abuse. This is particularly true of complexity, an inherently interdisciplinary concept that has penetrated very different fields of intellectual activity from physics to…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Tamás Vicsek

In hierarchical text classification, we perform a sequence of inference steps to predict the category of a document from top to bottom of a given class taxonomy. Most of the studies have focused on developing novels neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kervy Rivas Rojas , Gina Bustamante , Arturo Oncevay , Marco A. Sobrevilla Cabezudo

Using each node's degree as a proxy for its importance, the topological hierarchy of a complex network is introduced and quantified. We propose a simple dynamical process used to construct networks which are either maximally or minimally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-24 Ala Trusina , Sergei Maslov , Petter Minnhagen , Kim Sneppen

Over the past few decades, non-monotonic reasoning has developed to be one of the most important topics in computational logic and artificial intelligence. Different ways to introduce non-monotonic aspects to classical logic have been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-13 Michael Thomas , Heribert Vollmer

We perform a refined complexity-theoretic analysis of three classical problems in the context of Hierarchical Task Network Planning: the verification of a provided plan, whether an executable plan exists, and whether a given state can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cornelius Brand , Robert Ganian , Fionn Mc Inerney , Simon Wietheger

In these notes we review emergent phenomena in complex systems, emphasizing ways to identify potential underlying universal mechanisms that generates complexity. The discussion is centered around the emergence of collective behavior in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-04-02 Dante R. Chialvo

We define the topological complexity sequence of a group as the sequence of topological complexities of its Milnor constructions. This sequence may be regarded as an intrinsic refinement of the topological complexity of a group and, unlike…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Daisuke Kishimoto , Yuki Minowa

Treating a conjecture, P^#P != NP, on the separation of complexity classes as an axiom, an implication is found in three manifold topology with little obvious connection to complexity theory. This is reminiscent of Harvey Friedman's work on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-17 M. Freedman

A new approach to the construction of general persistent polyhierarchical classifications is proposed. It is based on implicit description of category polyhierarchy by a generating polyhierarchy of classification criteria. Similarly to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pavel Babikov , Oleg Gontcharov , Maria Babikova

We deal with stability theory for ``reasonable'' non-elementary classes without any remanents of compactness (like: above Hanf number or definable by L_{omega_1, omega}).

Logic · Mathematics 2007-08-15 Saharon Shelah

The framework of Pearl's Causal Hierarchy (PCH) formalizes three types of reasoning: probabilistic (i.e. purely observational), interventional, and counterfactual, that reflect the progressive sophistication of human thought regarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Julian Dörfler , Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liskiewicz

Hierarchical structure is an essential part of complexity, important notion relevant for a wide range of applications ranging from biological population dynamics through robotics to social sciences. In this paper we propose a simple…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Ivan Gotz , Isaak Rubinstein , Eugene Tsvetkov , Boris Zaltzman