Modularity has recently become an important concept in economics and management science alike (Ulrich 1995; Baldwin and … Clark 2000). However, it is not always clear what is meant by modularity as formal treatments are rare. The aim of this … paper is threefold. First, we want to provide a rigorous treatment of modularity. To this end we use Kauffman"s (1993) NK …

measurement of system complexity is still imprecise. For many systems, their modular construction brings challenges in … communication protocols which allow complexity to increase dramatically. We take a broad view of these issues and then consider the … nature of the system space which generates complexity. We show examples from cellular automata and applications of neural …

complement this principle in that we additionally consider the variety induced complexity throughout the assembly process. The … weighted Shannon entropy is proposed as a measure for the evaluation of this complexity. Our results show that the delayed …