Multiscale Information Theory and the Marginal Utility of Information

Multiscale Information Theory and the Marginal Utility of Information

Complex systems display behavior at a range of scales. Large-scale behaviors can emerge from the correlated or dependent behavior of individual small-scale components. To capture this observation in a rigorous and general way, we introduce a formalism for multiscale information theory. Dependent beh...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Allen, Blake C. Stacey, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-06-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
complexity
complex systems
entropy
information
scale
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/6/273

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