COMPLEXITY

Date = Jan 5, 2014

Tags <ESM102>

Outline

Complexity results from multiple indepenent and interacting components

individual components can be following very simple rules

doesn't have to be large

Emergent behavior

may exhibit behaviors in which there is a qualitative difference between what happens at the larger scale that can't be predicted by what happens at a smaller scale

Complex systems are often unpredictable because of this inherent uncertainty

References and Links

problem types - disambiguate between information problems and complex problems