Monte Carlo simulation of the rise and the fall of languages

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 781-787

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Stauffer, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bit strings; Phase transition; Scaling; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544478797     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183105007479     Document Type: Article

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