Recent developments in computer simulations of language compettion

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 60-67

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Stauffer, Dietrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Brazilian Academy of Sciences   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT-STRING MODELS; COMPETITIVENESS; LANGUAGE COMPETITION; LANGUAGE SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 33646407599     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2006.47     Document Type: Review

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