On complexity and emergence Export

@misc{citeulike:854208, abstract = {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 Shannon Entropy measures widely used as complexity measures, yet addresses a number of concerns raised against these measures. However, the price of doing this is to introduce context dependence into the definition of complexity. It is argued that such...}, author = {Standish, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {854208}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/standish01complexity.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/standish01complexity.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/standish01complexity.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/standish01complexity.html}, keywords = {complexity}, posted-at = {2007-01-01 21:50:15}, priority = {2}, title = {On complexity and emergence}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/standish01complexity.html}, year = {2001} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:854208 L3 - citeulike-article-id:854208 N2 - 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 Shannon Entropy measures widely used as complexity measures, yet addresses a number of concerns raised against these measures. However, the price of doing this is to introduce context dependence into the definition of complexity. It is argued that such... TI - On complexity and emergence KW - complexity AU - Standish, R PY - 2001/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/standish01complexity.html ER -