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The information-theoretic representation of quantum systems, which complements the familiar energy description of the density-functional and wave-function-based theories, is here discussed. According to it, the internal disorder of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 J. S. Dehesa , D. Manzano , P. S. Sánchez-Moreno , R. J. Yáñez

The concept of Shannon entropy of random variables was generalized to measurable functions in general, and to simple functions with finite values in particular. It is shown that the information measure of a function is related to the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Guo Zhao

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

Information theory is a powerful tool to express principles to drive autonomous systems because it is domain invariant and allows for an intuitive interpretation. This paper studies the use of the predictive information (PI), also called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Georg Martius , Ralf Der , Nihat Ay

We pedagogically present the information theory as originally established, explaining its essential ideas and paying attention to the expression employed to measure the amount of information. Also we discussed relationships between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Wallas S. Nascimento , Marcos M. de Almeida , Frederico V. Prudente

Science is a constructed narrative of the natural world based on information gathering and its subsequent analysis. In this essay, we develop a novel approach to the epistemic foundations of the scientific narrative, as based on our…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Marcelo Gleiser , Damian Sowinski

Today, the vast majority of the world's digital information is represented using the fundamental assumption, introduced by Claude Shannon in 1948, that ``...the semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem (of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luis A. Lastras , Barry Trager , Jonathan Lenchner , Wojtek Szpankowski , Chai Wah Wu , Mark Squillante , Ron Fagin , Alex Gray

Extracting higher-order structures from multivariate data has become an area of intensive study in complex systems science, as these multipartite interactions can reveal insights into fundamental features of complex systems like emergent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Thomas F. Varley

The Chapter starts with introductory information about quantitative linguistics notions, like rank--frequency dependence, Zipf's law, frequency spectra, etc. Similarities in distributions of words in texts with level occupation in quantum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-04 Andrij Rovenchak

Advances in science are being sought in newly available opportunities to collect massive quantities of data about complex systems. While key advances are being made in detailed mapping of systems, how to relate this data to solving many of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-05 Yaneer Bar-Yam

Society's capacity for algorithmic problem-solving has never been greater. Artificial Intelligence is now applied across more domains than ever, a consequence of powerful abstractions, abundant data, and accessible software. As capabilities…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-20 Kris Sankaran

This paper discusses system consequence, a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the abstract level of universal logic and the theory of institutions. The theory of information flow is a theory of distributed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Robert E. Kent

Numerous definitions for complexity have been proposed over the last half century, with little consensus achieved on how to use the term. A definition of complexity is supplied here that is closely related to the Kolmogorov Complexity and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Russell K. Standish

Beyond the local constraints imposed by grammar, words concatenated in long sequences carrying a complex message show statistical regularities that may reflect their linguistic role in the message. In this paper, we perform a systematic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo A. Montemurro , Damian H. Zanette

The concept of information has emerged as a language in its own right, bridging several disciplines that analyze natural phenomena and man-made systems. Integrated information has been introduced as a metric to quantify the amount of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-10 Alberto Hernández-Espinosa , Héctor Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that plays a crucial role in extracting valuable insights and knowledge from large and intricate datasets. Within the realm of Data Science, two fundamental components are Information Theory (IT)…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-12-31 Shahid Nawaz , Muhammad Saleem , F. V. Kusmartsev , Dalaver H. Anjum

Numerical analysts might be expected to pay close attention to a branch of complexity theory called information-based complexity theory (IBCT), which produces an abundance of impressive results about the quest for approximate solutions to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Beresford N. Parlett

Information theory has been taken as a prospective tool for quantifying the complexity of complex networks. In this paper, we first study the information entropy or uncertainty of a path using the information theory. Then we apply the path…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-04 Zhongqi Xu , Cunlai Pu , Jian Yang

The authors discuss information-based complexity theory, which is a model of finite-precision computations with real numbers, and its applications to numerical analysis.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-02-03 J. F. Traub , Henryk Woźniakowski

Nature is full of random networks of complex topology describing such apparently disparate systems as biological, economical or informatical ones. Their most characteristic feature is the apparent scale-free character of interconnections…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Wilk , Z. Wlodarczyk