COMPLEXITY THEORY

'Complexity theory' may refer to:

★ the study of any complex system

★ chaos theory

★ Computational complexity theory, a field in theoretical computer science and mathematics dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem

★ the theoretical treatment of Kolmogorov complexity of a string studied in algorithmic information theory by identifying the length of the shortest binary program which can output that string

★ the application of complexity theory to organizations, which has been influential in strategic management and organizational studies; this area is sometimes referred to as complexity strategy or the study of complex adaptive organizations.

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See also

See also

★ Systems theory (or ''systemics'' or ''general systems theory''), an interdisciplinary field including engineering, biology, and philosophy that incorporates science to study large systems