Measuring information propagation and retention in Boolean networks and its implication to a model of human organizations

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2935-2942

  Ribeiro, Andre S ^a,b   Este, Robert A ^a   Lloyd Price, Jason ^a   Kauffman, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complexity; Information; Information propagation and retention; Knowledge management; Lempel Ziv; Organization; Organizational development; System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

BOOLEAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; INFROMATION TRANSMISSION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 37849188868     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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