An approach to the physics of complexity

DOI10.1016/0960-0779(94)90021-3MaRDI QIDQ1321728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Schapiro

Publication date 29 March 1995

Published in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-0779(94)90021-3

zbMATH Keywords

Zipf's lawcritical complexitiesevolution of complex systemsminimal hierarchical structureprobabilistic weighted, connected directed acyclic graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical biology in general (92B99) Other natural sciences (mathematical treatment) (92F05)

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