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| Author: | West, B. J. Salk, J. |
| Title: | Complexity, organization and uncertainty. |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research
1987 : JUN, VOL. 30:2, p. 117-128 |
| Index terms: | CYBERNETICS ORGANIZATION STOCHASTIC PROCESSES SOCIAL SCIENCES UNCERTAINTY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A strategy for understanding some of the observed relationships between complexity, organization and uncertainty is discussed. The approach is phenomenological and emphasizes the basically discontinuous, irregular and uncertain aspects of sociobiological systems. Much of the discussion is motivated by the observed inverse power-laws that arise in a great many datasets and concludes that even the simplest sociobiological systems elude the deterministic description of the sciences. |
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