Behavior modes, pathways and overall trajectories: Eigenvector and eigenvalue analysis of dynamic systems

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-62

  Gonçalves, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EIGENVALUE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHILOSOPHY; RESEARCH WORK; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 69249168882     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.414     Document Type: Article

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