| Article ID: | iaor20083141 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 217 |
| End Page Number: | 228 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Sigmund Karl |
| Keywords: | chaos |
In many cases, the orbits of deterministic systems displaying highly irregular oscillations yield smoothly converging time averages. It may happen, however, that these time averages do not converge and themselves display wild oscillations. This is analyzed for heteroclinic attractors and hyperbolic strange attractors.