The idea of a circular economy, first discussed by Kenneth Boulding in the 1960s and '70 s
and reintroduced by environmental economists David Pearce and R. Kerry Turner in 1990 …

This thesis analyses the conception and measurement of complexity and then applies it to
some aspects of formal languages. It starts with a review of the philosophy of modelling. It …

A number of different measures of complexity have been described, discussed, and applied
to the logistic map. A classification of these measures has been proposed, distinguishing …

Die Erforschung komplexer Strukturen ist gegenwärtig eines der interessantesten
wissenschaftlichen Themen. Dieses Buch behandelt Möglichkeiten der Beschreibung und …

Pragmatic information, understood as the impact of a message upon a receiving system,
represents a matured and comprehensive concept of which earlier proposals are special …

A method for analyzing deterministic dynamical systems is presented. New measures of
complexity are proposed, based on fluctuation in net information gain and its dependence …

This paper proposes the restoration of information theory by means of a philosophy of
evolutionary systems. What this philosophy implies for the conception of information may be …

This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model
different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and …

It is discussed why and how epistemological arguments are helpful for systematic and formal
progress toward a proper understanding of complex systems, beyond their …

In der vorliegenden wissenschaftsphilosophischen und wissenschaftshistorischen Arbeit zu
Instabilitäten in Natur und Wissenschaft werden drei zentrale Stabilitäts-und …