Thermodynamical and logical openness in general systems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-145

  Minati, Gianfranco ^a   Penna, Maria Pietronilla ^a,b   Pessa, Eliano ^a,b  

^a AIRS   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constraints; Degrees of openness; Dissipative structures; General systems; Metric in models space; Moving boundary problems; Openness and closedness; Undescribability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032016735     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199803/04)15:2<131::AID-SRES127>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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