Emergence of constraint in self-organizing systems

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-146

  Guerin, Stephen ^a   Kunkle, Daniel ^a  

^a Redfish Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Ant simulation; Constraint; Entropy; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; HUMAN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ENTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 2542586215     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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