Emergence and dissolvence in the self-organisation of complex systems

Entropy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Testa, Bernard ^a   Kier, Lemont B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Complexity; Dissolvence; Emergent properties; Information; Property space; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TISSUE;

DISSOLVENCE; EMERGENT PROPERTIES; PROPERTY SPACE; SELF-ORGNIZATION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001963058     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e2010001     Document Type: Article

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