An information theoretic approach to system differentiation on the basis of statistical dependencies between subsystems

Jürgen Jost, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Nihat Ay and Sidney Frankel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 378, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: We develop an analysis of complex systems in terms of statistical correlations between the dynamics of its subsystems as a formal framework within which to understand processes of system differentiation.

Keywords: Differentiation of social systems; Dependencies between subsystems; System correlations; Modularity; Complementarity; Functional differentiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.043

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