Measuring the complexity of self-organizing traffic lights

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2384-2407

  Zubillaga, Darío ^a,b   Cruz, Geovany ^a,c   Aguilar, Luis Daniel ^a,c   Zapotécatl, Jorge ^a,b   Fernández, Nelson ^d,e   Aguilar, José ^e   Rosenblueth, David A ^a,b   Gershenson, Carlos ^a,b  

^a Cd Universitaria   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Tecno ogico de Estudios Superiores de Jocotit an   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE PAMPLONA   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Autopoiesis; Cellular automata; Complexity; Emergence; Information; Self organization; Traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901428187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16052384     Document Type: Article

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