When can we call a system self-organizing?

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2801, Issue , 2003, Pages 606-614

  Gershenson, Carlos ^a   Heylighen, Francis ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

DYNAMICS OF ENTROPY; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGICAL ISSUES; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS;

OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS;

EID: 7444271116     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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