Self-Organized Criticality: Self-Organized Complexity? The Disorder and "Simple Complexities" of Power Law Distributions

Open Systems and Information Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 131-138

  Shiner, J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0007642673     PISSN: 12301612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009652708715     Document Type: Article

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