Complex system
Complex systems are systems which deny the simplification and remain complex. In particular, these include complex adaptive systems which are able to adapt to their environment.
Your analysis is a matter of complexity theory (english complexity theory ) and system theory, but which is distinguished from the complexity theory in computer science sense.
In addition, analyzes and measures the Combinatorial game theory, game complexity with the following metrics:
- State-space complexity
- Game tree size
- Decision-making complexity
- Game tree complexity
- Computational effort
Complex systems are property of complexity reduction and complexity management.
Properties
Complex systems exhibit a number of properties (selection):
Example
The human brain is an example of a complex system, since it is composed of one another often linked units, the neurons, and other accessory cells, whose function is largely unknown. Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of the human brain may. It must here, however, to distinguish between consciousness itself ( as a medium in the ontological sense) and contents of consciousness as information that manifest themselves within the ontological medium ' consciousness '. Further, V.A. known from everyday life, (highly) complex systems such as the Internet, financial markets, multinational corporations, but also the human nervous system, the man himself, infrastructure networks and the like.
Well-known researchers
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- Jay Wright Forrester
- Brian Goodwin
- John H. Holland
- Stuart Kauffman
- Christopher Langton
- Niklas Luhmann
- Fredmund Malik
- Bernhard von Mutius
- Hermann Haken
- Fritjof Capra
- Frederic Vester
Significant Institute for the Study of Complex Systems
- Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin.
- Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.
- Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan
Facilities in Germany