Zipf’s Law: Balancing Signal Usage Cost and Communication Efficiency

• Christoph Salge,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

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• Nihat Ay,

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Daniel Polani,

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Mikhail Prokopenko

  * E-mail: mikhail.prokopenko@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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