Empirical tests of Zipf's law mechanism in open source linux distribution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Maillart, T ^a   Sornette, D ^a   Spaeth, S ^a   Von Krogh, G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EMPIRICAL REGULARITIES; EMPIRICAL TESTS; LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; POWER LAWS; SELF-ORGANIZING; STOCHASTIC GROWTH MODELS; ZIPF'S LAWS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 56849096514     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.218701     Document Type: Article

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