title: Shannon information, LMC complexity and Rényi entropies: a straightforward approach.
abstract: The LMC complexity, an indicator of complexity based on a probabilistic description, is revisited. A straightforward approach allows us to establish the time evolution of this indicator in a near-equilibrium situation and gives us a new insight for interpreting the LMC complexity for a general non equilibrium system. Its relationship with the Rényi entropies is also explained. One of the advantages of this indicator is that its calculation does not require a considerable computational effort in many cases of physical and biological interest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Sciences, Facultad de Ciencias-Edificio B, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009-Zaragoza, Spain. rilopez@unizar.es
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: López-Ruiz
mesh_terms: D019277:Entropy; D008433:Mathematics; D011336:Probability