Probing the nature of complex systems: Parameters, modeling, interventions-part 1

Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 94-121

  Goldstein, Jeffrey ^a  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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