Visual Interactive Modelling with Sim View for Organizational Improvement

Simulation

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 106-120

  Van Dijk, Johannes N ^a   Jobing, Marcel J ^a   Warren, James R ^b   Seeley, Douglas ^c   Macri, Riccardo ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c InterDynamics Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

animation; discrete event simulation; hierarchical decomposition; organizational modelling; visual interactive modelling; whole systems perspective

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR; GRAPHICAL MODEL SPECIFICATION; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION; ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL MODELLING; SIMVIEW; VISUAL INTERACTIVE MODELLING; WHOLE SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030216876     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754979606700205     Document Type: Article

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