Cohesion: A Measure of Organisation and Epistemic Uncertainty of Incoherent Ensembles
This paper offers a measure of how organised a system is, as defined by self-consistency. Complex dynamics such as tipping points and feedback loops can cause systems with identical initial parameters to vary greatly by their final state. These systems can be called non-ergodic or incoherent. This l...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2023-11, Vol.25 (12), p.1605 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper offers a measure of how organised a system is, as defined by self-consistency. Complex dynamics such as tipping points and feedback loops can cause systems with identical initial parameters to vary greatly by their final state. These systems can be called non-ergodic or incoherent. This lack of consistency (or replicability) of a system can be seen to drive an additional form of uncertainty, beyond the variance that is typically considered. However, certain self-organising systems can be shown to have some self-consistency around these tipping points, when compared with systems that find no consistent final states. Here, we propose a measure of this self-consistency that is used to quantify our confidence in the outcomes of agent-based models, simulations or experiments of dynamical systems, which may or may not contain multiple attractors. |
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ISSN: | 1099-4300 1099-4300 |
DOI: | 10.3390/e25121605 |