On world religion adherence distribution evolution

Econophysics Approaches to Large-Scale Business Data and Financial Crisis - Proceedings of the Tokyo Tech-Hitotsubashi Interdisciplinary Conference + APFA7, THIC+APFA7 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 289-312

  Ausloos, Marcel ^a   Petroni, Filippo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; SMOOTH EVOLUTIONS; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84858070126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-53853-0_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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