Syntactic Measures of Complexity

Abstract

page 14 Declaration - page 15 Notes of copyright and the ownership of intellectual property rights - page 15 The Author - page 16 Acknowledgements - page 16 1 - Introduction - page 17 1.1 - Background - page 17 1.2 - The Style of Approach - page 18 1.3 - Motivation - page 19 1.4 - Style of Presentation - page 20 1.5 - Outline of the Thesis - page 21 2 - Models and Modelling - page 23 2.1 - Some Types of Models - page 25 2.2 - Combinations of Models - page 28 2.3 - Parts of the Modelling Apparatus - page 33 2.4 - Models in Machine Learning - page 38 2.5 - The Philosophical Background to the Rest of this Thesis - page 41 Syntactic Measures of Complexity - page 3 - 3 - Problems and Properties - page 44 3.1 - Examples of Common Usage - page 44 3.1.1 - A case of nails - page 44 3.1.2 - Writing a thesis - page 44 3.1.3 - Mathematics - page 44 3.1.4 - A gas - page 44 3.1.5 - An ant hill - page 45 3.1.6 - A car engine - page 45 3.1.7 - A cell as part of an organism -...