Self-organised criticality - What it is and what it isn't

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 613-632

  Frigg, Roman ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formal analogy; Models; Scaling law; Self organised criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041927734     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(03)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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