Meta-structural properties in collective behaviours

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-311

  Minati, Gianfranco ^a   Licata, Ignazio ^b  

^a Italian Systems Society   (Italy)

^b ISEM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; Emergence; Ergodicity; Mesoscopic; Meta structures

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SEQUENCE; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; EMERGENCE; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; EMERGENT PROPERTY; ERGODICITY; FORMAL TOOLS; INTERACTING ELEMENTS; MESOSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MESOSCOPIC VARIABLES; MESOSCOPICS; META-STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

COHERENT LIGHT; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84860187403     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: 15635104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081079.2011.651136     Document Type: Article

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