Complexity theory
Algorithmic complexity theory and the relative efficiency of financial markets
... By considering data from 36 stockmarket indices, 37 individual company stock prices, and 19 US dollar exchange rates, this paper puts forward one way to assess the relative efficiency of financial markets. This is made ...
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Being pragmatic about healthcare complexity: our experiences applying complexity theory and pragmatism to health services research
... social complexity theory, Paley states that “complexity is an explanatory concept” ([39], ...Social complexity theorists seem to disagree, describing emer- gence as descriptive, not ...
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Complexity theory and geographies of health: a critical assessment
... Graham Rowles (2000) is interested, and has been for over 25 years, in the lives of older people and how these are played out in places, particularly in rural Appalachia (such as the anonymised rural community of ...
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On the legitimacy of Emergentism and Chaos complexity theory as conceivable challenges to the nativist paradigm
... chaos, complexity scholars believe in considering the features of chaotic complex ...chaos complexity theory, the present paper tries to illustrate the implausibility of Chomskian account of language ...
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Complexity Theory and CALL Curriculum in Foreign Language Learning
... Complexity theory deals with complex systems and these systems entail some main characteristics as, sensitivity to initial conditions and feedback, dynamism, non-linearity, openness, complexity and ...
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Complexity theory and transport planning: Fractal traffic networks
... One of the important procedures in many applications of transport planning is the analysis of the performance of traffic networks that is related to the supply and demand of transport (commonly measured by the road ...
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Exploring the potential of complexity theory in urban regeneration processes
... of complexity theory in understanding urban regeneration ...the complexity project is, therefore, the defiance of the reductionist paradigm in favour of holism and emphasis on emergent properties in ...
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Major League Soccer as a Case Study in Complexity Theory
... its complexity. Is this criticism fair? By delving into complexity theory and the unique nature of the league, this Article argues that the traditional complaints may not apply in the context of the ...
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Price Tactics For A Turbulent Environment: A Complexity Theory View
... a complexity theory ...using complexity theory to understand how to cope in turbulent environments is necessary but has not been widely ...using complexity theory to better ...
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Complexity Theory, Democratic Transition and Public Policy Choices in Iraq
... This article adopts Complexity Theory to improve understanding of Iraq's future patterns of democratic stabilization and consolidation. It emphasizes the importance of soft technologies, as well as hard ...
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Algorithmic complexity theory and the relative efficiency of financial markets Updated
... Algorithmic complexity theory makes a connection between the efficient market hypothesis and the unpredictable character of asset returns because a time series that has a dense amount of non-redundant ...
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Introduction to Complexity Theory Lecture Notes Oded Goldreich pdf
... The third theory, initiated by Blum, Goldwasser, Micali and Yao [12, 1, 24], is rooted in complexity theory and is the focus of this essay. This approach is explicitly aimed at providing a notion of ...
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Embedding Research in Health Systems: lessons from complexity theory
... Complex organisations are characterised by systemic in- teractions [8, 15, 23, 24]. Unlike mechanical systems, for example, a car, which has a clear boundary, complex adaptive systems are open and so the boundaries are ...
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Complexity theory, systems thinking and international relations
... from complexity to the field emerged in the 1990s, when James Rosenau’s Turbulence in world politics represented a path-breaking effort (Rosenau 1990; 2003; Axelrod 1997; Jervis ...place complexity ...
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Algebrization: A New Barrier in Complexity Theory
... We have shown that arithmetization—“lifting” Boolean logic operations to arithmetic operations over the integers or a field—will not suffice to solve many of the open problems in complexity theory. A ...
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Complexity Theory and Interprofessional Education in Health
... to complexity theory ...to complexity, systems theory also seeks to understand how relationships between agents of a system influence ...systems theory is focused on identifying and ...
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Models and metaphors: complexity theory and through life management in the built environment
... In applying such a metaphorical approach to the built environment industry, particular peculiarities may be revealed. The so-called ‘fragmentation’ of the industry has long been commented on (see for instance Groak, ...
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A Radical Shift in Managing Risks: Practical Applications of Complexity Theory
... GRACI ELA CHI CHI LNI SKY I S UNESCO PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATI CS AND ECONOMI CS AND DI RECTOR, PROGRAMON I NFORMATI ON AND RESOURCES, COLUMBI A UNI VERSI TY, NEWYORK CI TY... WEATHER MAP C[r] ...
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Some Results in Algebraic Complexity Theory. Volker Strassen
... As it happens, several of the previous results are concerned with the computa- tional complexity of going from one representation of a univariate polynomial to another : Computing the e[r] ...
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