Creativity as cognitive design: The case of mesoscopic variables in meta-structures

Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-107

  Licata, Ignazio ^a   Minati, Gianfranco ^b,c  

^a ISEM   (Italy)

^b Italian Systems Society   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Constructivist design; Dynamical usage of models; Emergence; Logical openness; Mesoscopic variables; Meta structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860210032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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