A Bottleneck Principle for Techno-Metabolic Chains
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2017-08-15 v1
Abstract
A plausible mechanism of self-regulation in technological chains of the kind wherein input resources are converted into common final product through sequences of processing links having uniform kinetic properties is discussed. A bottleneck principle is derived according to which output of the overall chain is completely determined by its slowest link, if all the links are featured by satiation and weak outflow.
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@article{arxiv.1708.04177,
title = {A Bottleneck Principle for Techno-Metabolic Chains},
author = {A. T. Mustafin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04177},
year = {2017}
}
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13 pages, 7 figures, Discussion paper, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan