Editorial for the specialissue on ‘emergent properties of complex systems’: Emergence and levels of abstraction

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 811-818

  Damper, R I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EMERGENT PROPERTIES;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034236856     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002077200406543     Document Type: Article

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