Systems without low-productive sources

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1428-1441

  Egghe, Leo ^a,b   Rousseau, Ronald ^a,b,c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

ALPHA EXPONENTS; INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESSES (IPPS); SIZE-FREQUENCY POWER LAW;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33744939178     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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