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Algorithmic Information Dynamics

Algorithmic Information Dynamics

Algorithmic Information Dynamics

A Computational Approach to Causality with Applications to Living Systems
Hector Zenil, University of Cambridge
Narsis A. Kiani, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Jesper Tegnér, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
May 2023
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    Biological systems are extensively studied as interactions forming complex networks. Reconstructing causal knowledge from, and principles of, these networks from noisy and incomplete data is a challenge in the field of systems biology. Based on an online course hosted by the Santa Fe Institute Complexity Explorer, this book introduces the field of Algorithmic Information Dynamics, a model-driven approach to the study and manipulation of dynamical systems . It draws tools from network and systems biology as well as information theory, complexity science and dynamical systems to study natural and artificial phenomena in software space. It consists of a theoretical and methodological framework to guide an exploration and generate computable candidate models able to explain complex phenomena in particular adaptable adaptive systems, making the book valuable for graduate students and researchers in a wide number of fields in science from physics to cell biology to cognitive sciences.

    • Introduces Algorithmic Information Dynamics, a computational framework for research in causal discovery and analysis, offering principles, tools and methods to automatically generate and study computable candidate models to explain natural phenomena in particular adaptable complex adaptive system
    • Proposes a causal discrete calculus to study first principles, and generating mechanisms of complex adaptive systems
    • An alternative to popular statistical lossless compression methods used; an essential tool to estimate and find applications of algorithmic (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) complexity

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    May 2023
    Hardback
    9781108497664
    345 pages
    250 × 175 × 24 mm
    0.79kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Part I. Preliminaries:
    • 1. A computational approach to causality
    • 2. Networks: from structure to dynamics
    • 3. Information and computability theories
    • Part II. Theory and Methods:
    • 4. Algorithmic information theory
    • 5. The coding theorem method (CTM)
    • 6. The block decomposition method (BDM)
    • 7. Graph and tensor complexity
    • 8. Algorithmic information dynamics (AID)
    • Part III. Applications:
    • 9. From theory to practice
    • 10. Algorithmic dynamics in artificial environments
    • 11. Applications to integer and behavioural sequences
    • 12. Applications to evolutionary biology
    • Postface
    • Appendix: Mutual and conditional BDM
    • Glossary.