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Remarks on the Respective Roles of Logical Parameters and Time Delays in Asynchronous Logic: An Homage to El Houssine Snoussi

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As a tribute to E.H. Snoussi for his essential mathematical formalization of the logic approach to qualitatively described gene networks, this note presents some thoughts on the relationships between logical parameters and time delays in asynchronous logic.

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Thomas, R. Remarks on the Respective Roles of Logical Parameters and Time Delays in Asynchronous Logic: An Homage to El Houssine Snoussi. Bull Math Biol 75, 896–904 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-013-9830-9

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