@inbook {Fernandez2013Information-Mea, title = {Information Measures of Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis}, booktitle = {Guided Self-Organization: Inception}, year = {2014}, note = {In Press}, pages = {19-51}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {

This chapter reviews measures of emergence, self-organization, complexity, homeostasis, and autopoiesis based on information theory. These measures are derived from proposed axioms and tested in two case studies: random Boolean networks and an Arctic lake ecosystem. Emergence is defined as the information produced by a system or process. Self-organization is defined as the opposite of emergence, while complexity is defined as the balance between emergence and self-organization. Homeostasis reflects the stability of a system. Autopoiesis is defined as the ratio between the complexity of a system and the complexity of its environment. The proposed measures can be applied at different scales, which can be studied with multi-scale profiles.

}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1842}, author = {Nelson Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Maldonado and Carlos Gershenson}, editor = {Mikhail Prokopenko} }