Modeling language evolution

Foundations of Computational Mathematics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-343

  Cucker, Felipe ^a   Smale, Steve ^b   Zhou, Ding Xuan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language evolution; Learning theory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; LEARNING DYNAMICS; REAL NUMBERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 4744341824     PISSN: 16153375     EISSN: 16153383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10208-003-0101-2     Document Type: Article

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