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Complexity is a multi-faceted phenomenon, involving a variety of features including disorder, nonlinearity, and self-organisation. We use a recently developed rigorous framework for complexity to understand measures of complexity. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-22 Karoline Wiesner , James Ladyman

Many systems of interest exhibit nested emergent layers with their own rules and regularities, and our knowledge about them seems naturally organised around these levels. This paper proposes that this type of hierarchical emergence arises…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Fernando E. Rosas

The rising complexity of our terrestrial surrounding is an empirical fact. Details of this process evaded description in terms of physics for long time attracting attention and creating myriad of ideas including non-scientific ones. In this…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Michal Mandrysz , Jakub Mielczarek

Most parameterized complexity classes are defined in terms of a parameterized version of the Boolean satisfiability problem (the so-called weighted satisfiability problem). For example, Downey and Fellow's W-hierarchy is of this form. But…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joerg Flum , Martin Grohe

A new class of functions is presented. The structure of the algorithm, particularly the selection criteria (branching), is used to define the fundamental property of the new class. The most interesting property of the new functions is that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Rade Vuckovac

Challenging the standard notion of totality in computable functions, one has that, given any sufficiently expressive formal axiomatic system, there are total functions that, although computable and "intuitively" understood as being total,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Felipe S. Abrahão , Klaus Wehmuth , Artur Ziviani

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a prominent problem-modeling and solving framework, whose solutions are called answer sets. Epistemic logic programs (ELP) extend ASP to reason about all or some answer sets. Solutions to an ELP can be seen…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thomas Eiter , Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Stefan Woltran

The term {\em complexity} is used informally both as a quality and as a quantity. As a quality, complexity has something to do with our ability to understand a system or object -- we understand simple systems, but not complex ones. On…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-19 Russell K. Standish

The presence of hierarchy in many real-world networks is not yet fully explained. Complex interaction networks are often coarse-grain models of vast modular networks, where tightly connected subgraphs are agglomerated into nodes for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-24 C. Tyler Diggans , Jeremie Fish , Erik Bollt

Deep learning has recently demonstrated its ability to rival the human brain for visual object recognition. As datasets get larger, a natural question to ask is if existing deep learning architectures can be extended to handle the 50+K…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Sumanth Chennupati , Sai Nooka , Shagan Sah , Raymond W Ptucha

This article presents a general solution to the problem of computational complexity. First, it gives a historical introduction to the problem since the revival of the foundational problems of mathematics at the end of the 19th century.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Rami Zaidan

Physicists study a wide variety of phenomena creating new interdisciplinary research fields by applying theories and methods originally developed in physics in order to solve problems in economics, social science, biology, medicine,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

Criticality has been proposed as a mechanism for the emergence of complexity, life, and computation, as it exhibits a balance between robustness and adaptability. In classic models of complex systems where structure and dynamics are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Fernanda Sánchez-Puig , Octavio Zapata , Omar K. Pineda , Gerardo Iñiguez , Carlos Gershenson

Nonlinear field theories can be used to study both standard physics questions, or to study questions such as the emergence of order and complexity. These theories are generally derived from the symmetries of a given problem and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-09-14 Joel Thorarinson , Marcelo Gleiser

We investigate enumerability properties for classes of sets which permit recursive, lexicographically increasing approximations, or left-r.e. sets. In addition to pinpointing the complexity of left-r.e. Martin-L\"{o}f, computably, Schnorr,…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen , Frank Stephan , Jason R. Teutsch

We review possible measures of complexity which might in particular be applicable to situations where the complexity seems to arise spontaneously. We point out that not all of them correspond to the intuitive (or "naive") notion, and that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-20 Peter Grassberger

The evolution of complexity has been a central theme for Biology [2] and Artificial Life research [1]. It is generally agreed that complexity has increased in our universe, giving way to life, multi-cellularity, societies, and systems of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-09-06 Carlos Gershenson , Tom Lenaerts

We consider the arithmetic complexity of index sets of uniformly computably enumerable families learnable under different learning criteria. We determine the exact complexity of these sets for the standard notions of finite learning,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Achilles Beros

We examine the use of classes to formulate several categorical notions. This leads to two proposals: an explicit structure for working with subobjects, and a hierarchy of $k$-classes. We apply the latter to both ordinary and higher…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Paul Blain Levy

In the framework of a real Hilbert space we consider the problem of approaching solutions to a class of hierarchical variational inequality problems, subsuming several other problem classes including certain mathematical programs under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Pavel Dvurechensky , Meggie Marschner , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl