How to become a superhero

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Gleiser, Pablo M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Network dynamics; Networks; Random graphs; Scaling in socioeconomic systems; Socio economic networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148973861     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/09/P09020     Document Type: Article

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