• Title of article

    A mathematical view of biological complexity

  • Author/Authors

    Castilho Piqueira، نويسنده , , José Roberto، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    2581
  • To page
    2586
  • Abstract
    This essay is a trial on giving some mathematical ideas about the concept of biological complexity, trying to explore four different attributes considered to be essential to characterize a complex system in a biological context: decomposition, heterogeneous assembly, self-organization, and adequacy. It is a theoretical and speculative approach, opening some possibilities to further numerical and experimental work, illustrated by references to several researches that applied the concepts presented here.
  • Keywords
    Complexity measure , dynamical system , entropy , Information , self-organization
  • Journal title
    Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Record number

    1534430