complexity
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- Systems
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- Classification Problems
- In molecular recognition
- The law of requisite complexity
- Positive, appropriate and negative complexity
- In [[project management]]
- In systems engineering
- Applications
- Emerging applications in other fields
- Application in cosmology
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Complexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory.