Module:Complexity

Complex Systems Summer School 2011 Modules Home Schedule Concepts: Nonlinearity Networks Computation Robustness Evolution Complexity Emergence Machine Learning

Organized by Jim Crutchfield

Background

• T. Cover and J.Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, Wiley, Second Edition (2006) Chapters 1 - 7.
• M. Li and P.M.B.Vitanyi, An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications, Springer, New York (1993).
• J. P. Crutchfield and D. P. Feldman, “Regularities Unseen, Randomness Observed: Levels of Entropy Convergence”,CHAOS 13:1 (2003) 25-54.

Lecture Notes

• Thursday
  1. Processes and Their Models
  2. Information Theory
  3. Information in Processes
  4. Memory in Processes
• Friday
  1. The Learning Channel
  2. Causal Models
  3. Measures of Complexity
  4. Applications

Readings

The Calculi of Emergence

Pattern Discovery and Computational Mechanics

Anatomy of a Bit

Links

CMPy Notebook