Scale in Complex Systems
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 238
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Complex systems can be characterized by the behaviors they possess along with the scale at which each behavior occurs. However, there are multiple different but related concepts for scale. The scale of a particular behavior can, depending on the context, correspond to the number of synchronized components involved, the degree of coarse-graining, under which a behavior is still distinguishable, or the magnitude of the behavior, to name a few. Furthermore, concepts such as coarse-graining are multi-faceted, with no single “best” way to coarse-grain a generic system.
Contributions addressing any of these issues are very welcome. Of particular importance is research that synthesizes and unifies existing approaches. Areas of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to, the following:
- Methods that synthesize and/or create new ways of characterizing how the complexity of a complex system depends on scale, using techniques from information theory or elsewhere;
- Research connecting multi-scale concepts and formalisms used for complex systems to the multi-scale formalism used in physics, known as the Renormalization group;
- Syntheses of or new general methods for coarse-graining complex systems with many components;
- Syntheses of various definitions of scale in complex systems and how they are related to one another;
- Review articles describing how disparate existing research fits together and where more work is needed;
- An exposition of the Renormalization Group and how it is useful to the study of multi-scale information and complex systems, accessible to those without prior knowledge of advanced physics.
Prof. Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam
Guest Editor
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