An information theoretic approach to system differentiation on the basis of statistical dependencies between subsystems

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 378, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Jost, Jürgen ^a   Bertschinger, Nils ^a   Olbrich, Eckehard ^a   Ay, Nihat ^a   Frankel, Sidney ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Dependencies between subsystems; Differentiation of social systems; Functional differentiation; Modularity; System correlations

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

COMPLEMENTARITY; DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN SUBSYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION; MODULARITY; SYSTEM CORRELATIONS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847064646     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.043     Document Type: Article

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