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Measures of Complexity

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Atlan, H. (1988). Measures of biologically meaningful complexity. In: Peliti, L., Vulpiani, A. (eds) Measures of Complexity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50316-1_10

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