Symbolic dynamics, coarse graining and the monitoring of complex systems

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3465-3475

  Basios, Vasileios ^a   Mac Kernan, Dónal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

block entropy; Coarse graining; complexity; symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

BLOCK ENTROPY; COARSE GRAINING; COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; COMPLEX NONLINEAR SYSTEM; COMPLEXITY; NONLINEAR COMPLEX SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS;

MONITORING;

EID: 84856689288     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127411030660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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