Accession Number:

ADA475276

Title:

Complexity and Chaos - State-of-the-Art; Formulations and Measures of Complexity

Descriptive Note:

Technical note

Corporate Author:

DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)

Personal Author(s):

• Couture, Mario

Report Date:

2007-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

78.0

Abstract:

Different formulations and measures that may be used for evaluating the complexity of systems are gathered in this Technical Note. They might be useful for describing aspects of military complex systems. They were extracted from documents issued from the scientific literature related to Complexity Theory, chaos and complex systems.

Descriptors:

• *FORMULATIONS
• *METRICS
• CHAOS
• THEORY
• CANADA
• SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Operations Research
• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE