Complexity and its measures in cognitive and other complex systems
Witold Kinsner · 2008
The last few decades of physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, engineering, and social sciences have been marked by major developments of views on cognitive systems, dynamical systems, complex systems, complexity, self-organization, and emergent phenomena that originate from the interactions among the constituent components (agents) and with the environment, without any central authority. How can measures of complexity capture the intuitive sense of pattern, order, structure, regularity, evolution of features, memory, and correlation? This paper describes several key ideas, including dynamical systems, complex systems, complexity, and quantification of complexity. As there is no single definition of a complex system, its complexity and complexity measures too have many definitions. This papers also addresses some practical aspects of acquiring the observables.