Modeling the causal structure of the history of science

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 314, Issue , 2010, Pages 643-654

  Pessoa Jr , Osvaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 77957731480     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15223-8_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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