Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Corominas Murtra, Bernat ^a,b,c   Fortuny, Jordi ^d   Solé, Ricard V ^b,c,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84898769041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04587     Document Type: Article

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