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International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1017-1031

  Malarz, K ^a   Kaczanowska, S ^a   Kulakowski K ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Chaos; Percolation; Symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036820173     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183102003760     Document Type: Article

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