Quantifying the complexity of flow networks: How many roles are there?

Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 68-76

  Zorach, Alexander C ^a   Ulanowicz, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Ecosystem, role; Information theory; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012422679     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.10075     Document Type: Article

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