Measuring emergence via nonlinear Granger causality

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 545-552

  Seth, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; COMPLEXITY SCIENCE; GRANGER CAUSALITY; NONLINEAR TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 63849308384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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