Making the soft sciences hard: The Newton model

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-50

  Simms, James R ^a  

^a Simms Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Information phenomena and measurement; Living systems science; Science of society; Soft science

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650969533     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.1033     Document Type: Article

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