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A Fundamental Scale of Descriptions for Analyzing Information Content of Communication Systems
Gerardo Febres, Klaus Jaffe
The complexity of a system description is a function of the entropy of its symbolic description. Prior to computing the entropy of the system description, an observation scale has…
Visualizing the Invisible Hand of Markets: Simulating complex dynamic economic interactions
Klaus Jaffe
In complex systems, many different parts interact in non-obvious ways. Traditional research focuses on a few or a single aspect of the problem so as to analyze it with the tools av…
Social and Natural Sciences Differ in Their Research Strategies, Adapted to Work for Different Knowledge Landscapes
Klaus Jaffe
Do different fields of knowledge require different research strategies? A numerical model exploring different virtual knowledge landscapes, revealed two diverging optimal search st…
On the biological and cultural evolution of shame: Using internet search tools to weight values in many cultures
Klaus Jaffe, Astrid Florez, Cristina M Gomes +2
Shame has clear biological roots and its precise form of expression affects social cohesion and cultural characteristics. Here we explore the relative importance between shame and…
Quantifying literature quality using complexity criteria
Gerardo Febres, Klaus Jaffe
We measured entropy and symbolic diversity for English and Spanish texts including literature Nobel laureates and other famous authors. Entropy, symbol diversity and symbol frequen…