%0 Book Section %B Guided Self-Organization: Inception %D 2014 %T Information Measures of Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis %A Nelson Fernández %A Carlos Maldonado %A Carlos Gershenson %E Mikhail Prokopenko %X

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.

%B Guided Self-Organization: Inception %I Springer %P 19-51 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1842