COST-BASED APPROACH TO COMPLEXITY: A COMMON DENOMINATOR?

Cost-Based Approach to Complexity: A Common Denominator?

Complexity remains one of the central challenges in science and technology.Although several approaches at defining and/or quantifying complexity have been proposed, at some point each of them seems to run into intrinsic limitations or mutual disagreement.Two are the main objectives of the present work: (i) to review some of the main approaches to c

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Guessing with a Bit of Help

What is the value of just a few bits to a guesser? We study this problem in a setup where Alice wishes to guess an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random vector and can procure a fixed number of k information bits from Bob, who has observed this vector through a Fridge Water Inlet Valve memoryless channel.We are interested in the g

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Word diffusion and climate science.

As public and political debates often demonstrate, a substantial disjoint can exist between the findings of science and the impact it has on the public.Using climate-change science as a case example, we reconsider the role of scientists in the information-dissemination process, our seatpost adjusment hypothesis being that important keywords used in

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