Information entropy as a basic building block of complexity theory (Q280525)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6578336
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6578336 |
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Information entropy as a basic building block of complexity theory (English)
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10 May 2016
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Summary: What is information? What role does information entropy play in this information exploding age, especially in understanding emergent behaviors of complex systems? To answer these questions, we discuss the origin of information entropy, the difference between information entropy and thermodynamic entropy, the role of information entropy in complexity theories, including chaos theory and fractal theory, and speculate new fields in which information entropy may play important roles.
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information entropy
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thermodynamic entropy
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emergence
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chaos
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fractal
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complexity theory
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multiscale analysis
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