Quantitative measures of organization for multiagent systems.

A set of "information theoretic" measures has been developed to quantify the degree of constraint inherent in the organization of a multiagent system. Separate measures can be provided to quantify spatial organization, trophic organization and, more generally, the overall structure of interactions. The additive character of these quantities allows them to be distributed in various fashions among species and places in a way that allows one to assign an "Importance Index" to those taxa and places.