Complexity and its measures in cognitive and other complex systems

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-29

  Kinsner, Witold ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive systems; Complex systems; Complexity; Complexity measures; Dynamical systems; Monoscale and multiscale measures

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; MEASURES OF COMPLEXITIES; MONOSCALE AND MULTISCALE MEASURES; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 56349114541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2008.4639147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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