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Complexity measurement of natural and artificial languages
Gerardo Febres, Klaus Jaffe, Carlos Gershenson
We compared entropy for texts written in natural languages (English, Spanish) and artificial languages (computer software) based on a simple expression for the entropy as a functio…
Modelling Complexity for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
Bruce Edmonds, Carlos Gershenson
This chapter reviews the purpose and use of models from the field of complex systems and, in particular, the implications of trying to use models to understand or make decisions wi…
The Past, Present and Future of Cybernetics and Systems Research
Carlos Gershenson, Peter Csermely, Peter Erdi +2
Cybernetics and Systems Research (CSR) were developed in the mid-twentieth century, offering the possibility of describing and comparing different phenomena using the same language…
Information and Computation
Carlos Gershenson
In this chapter, concepts related to information and computation are reviewed in the context of human computation. A brief introduction to information theory and different types of…
Measuring Complexity in an Aquatic Ecosystem
Nelson Fernandez, Carlos Gershenson
We apply formal measures of emergence, self-organization, homeostasis, autopoiesis and complexity to an aquatic ecosystem; in particular to the physiochemical component of an Arcti…
The Dynamically Extended Mind -- A Minimal Modeling Case Study
Tom Froese, Carlos Gershenson, David A. Rosenblueth
The extended mind hypothesis has stimulated much interest in cognitive science. However, its core claim, i.e. that the process of cognition can extend beyond the brain via the body…