Information Entropy As a Basic Building Block of Complexity Theory

Entropy

Jianbo Gao¹  Feiyan Liu²  Jianfang Zhang²  Jing Hu¹ 

[1] School of Mechanical Engineering and China-Asean Research Institute, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning 530005, China; E-Mail:;Management School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; E-Mails:

关键词: information entropy;    thermodynamic entropy;    emergence;    chaos;    fractal;    complexity theory;    multiscale analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e15093396

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

What is information? What role does information entropy play in this information exploding age, especially in understanding emergent behaviors of complex systems? To answer these questions, we discuss the origin of information entropy, the difference between information entropy and thermodynamic entropy, the role of information entropy in complexity theories, including chaos theory and fractal theory, and speculate new fields in which information entropy may play important roles.

【 授权许可】

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