complexity
Sign in to saveComplexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Overview
- Disorganized versus organized
- Sources and factors
- Varied meanings
- Study
- Topics
- Behaviour
- Mechanisms
- Simulations
- Systems
- Data
- Classification Problems
- In molecular recognition
- The law of requisite complexity
- Positive, appropriate and negative complexity
- In [[project management]]
- In systems engineering
- Applications
- Emerging applications in other fields
- Application in cosmology
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Complexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory.
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