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| Title: |
Simulation Complexity |
| Author: |
Hay, Nicholas J. |
| Appeared in: |
Fundamenta informaticae |
| Paging: | Volume 83 (2008) nr. 1-2 pages 117-140 |
| Year: |
2008-05-27 |
| Contents: |
In Algorithmic Information Theory, the algorithmic complexity of a sequence is the length of the shortest program which generates it. Is there a measure of the complexity of a computer? We define the simulation complexity of a computer to be the least cost of simulating that computer on a fixed universal computer. We generalise this to processes, computers which can have potentially infinite output (e.g. monotone Turingmachines). Thismeasure has monotone complexity as a special case. Simulation complexity has applications to sequence prediction, leading to a clarification of a central prediction error inequality and a stronger form of dominance. Enumerable semimeasures are functions which represent sequence predictors. These semimeasures can be in turn represented by processes. A universal process generates a universal semimeasure: one that outperforms any other predictor but for a cost depending on how complex that predictor is. This extra cost is exactly the simulation complexity of the predictor. |
| Publisher: |
IOS Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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