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Complexity
There are different senses of
complexity
:
In
computer science
, the study of how much time and memory a computer
algorithm
may take is the field of
computational complexity theory
.
Complexity
is often used as a shorthand for the field that developed in the late
1980s
around the use of
mathematical
and
computational
modeling
of
biological
,
economic
and
technological
systems
known as "
complex systems
" (sometimes complex adaptive systems).