Evolving to the edge of chaos: Chance or necessity?

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1074-1087

  Rai, Vikas ^a   Upadhyay, Ranjit Kumar ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

SHORT-TERM RECURRENT CHAOS (STRC); STOCHASTIC PERTURBATIONS; THIRD MODEL SYSTEM;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 33745868681     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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