Use of complex adaptive systems for modeling global change

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 457-463

  Janssen, Marco ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Coevolution; Complex adaptive systems; Genetic algorithms; Global change; Malaria; Multiagent modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007947679     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900041     Document Type: Article

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