Quantitative measures of organization for multiagent systems

BioSystems

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-54

  Krivov, Serguei ^a   Ulanowicz, Robert E ^b   Dahiya, Anju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ascendency; Average mutual constraints; Multiagent systems; Spatial organization; Structural organization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0037377185     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(03)00003-0     Document Type: Article

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