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A self-organizing system is a hierarchical structure [2] which is simultaneously undergoing a variety of distinguishable activities. In the present paper we model a multihierarchical level system which communicates with the environment via a specific pair of hierarchical levels Q and W (Figure 1).
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Nicolis, J.S., Protonotarios, E.N., Voulodemou, I. (1978). Controlled Markov Chain Models for Biological Hierarchies. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_41
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