Defense of the Ansatz for dynamical hierarchies

Artificial Life

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 367-373

  Rasmussen, Steen ^a,b   Baas, Nils A ^c   Mayer, Bernd ^d   Nilsson, Martin ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complexity measures; Dynamical hierarchies; Emergence; Self assembly; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0035754178     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454601317297004     Document Type: Article

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