Imperial College London
Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Senior Research Investigator
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9853h.jensen Website

 
 
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Location

 

1201Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Rosas:2018:10.3390/e20100793,
author = {Rosas, De Andraca FE and Martinez, Mediano P and Ugarte, M and Jensen, H},
doi = {10.3390/e20100793},
journal = {Entropy},
title = {An information-theoretic approach to self-organisation: Emergence of complex interdependencies in coupled dynamical systems},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20100793},
volume = {20},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Self-organisation lies at the core of fundamental but still unresolved scientific questions, and holds the promise of de-centralised paradigms crucial for future technological developments. While self-organising processes have been traditionally explained by the tendency of dynamical systems to evolve towards specific configurations, or attractors, we see self-organisation as a consequence of the interdependencies that those attractors induce. Building on this intuition, in this work we develop a theoretical framework for understanding and quantifying self-organisation based on coupled dynamical systems and multivariate information theory. We propose a metric of global structural strength that identifies when self-organisation appears, and a multi-layered decomposition that explains the emergent structure in terms of redundant and synergistic interdependencies. We illustrate our framework on elementary cellular automata, showing how it can detect and characterise the emergence of complex structures.
AU  - Rosas,De Andraca FE
AU  - Martinez,Mediano P
AU  - Ugarte,M
AU  - Jensen,H
DO  - 10.3390/e20100793
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1099-4300
TI  - An information-theoretic approach to self-organisation: Emergence of complex interdependencies in coupled dynamical systems
T2  - Entropy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20100793
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/65214
VL  - 20
ER  -
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