Approach to a quantitative description of social systems based on thermodynamic formalism

Entropy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 98-105

  Stepanic Jr , Josip ^a   Stefancic, Hrvoje ^b   Zebec, Mislav Stjepan ^c   Perackovic, Kresimir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IVO PILAR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Entropy and temperature of social systems; Social potentials; Social systems theory; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY AND TEMPERATURE OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL POTENTIALS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS THEORY;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0346667026     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e2030098     Document Type: Article

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