Some Foundations in Complex Systems: Entropy, Information,
Computation, and Complexity.
David P. Feldman
I have developed a series of lectures which I delivered at the
Santa Fe Institute's
annual Complex
Systems Summer School in Beijing China from 2004 to 2008. A list of
topics covered is below. Here are the slides from the two most recent
versions of the lectures:
- Beijing 2008 [pdf]
(17MB, 295 slides)
- Paris 2007 [pdf]
(17MB, 293 slides)
The Paris lectures were given at the Complex Systems Summer School,
Institut des Systemes
Complex de Paris Ile-de-France in Paris.
- Introduction
- Chaos: Part I
- Chaos: Part II
- Information Theory: Part I
- Information Theory: Part II
- Extensions to Shannon Entropy
- Computation Theory: Part I
- Computation Theory: Part II
- Computational Mechanics
- Survey of Complexity Measures
- Complexity vs. Entropy
- Toward Two-dimensional Complexity Measures
- On the Objective Subjectivity of Complexity
- Some Open Questions
- Conclusion
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