An Open Geographic Modeling Environment

Simulation

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-185

  Maxwell, Thomas ^a   Costanza, Robert ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distributed modular simulation; Everglades; Landscape modeling; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED MODULAR SIMULATION; MODULAR MODELING LANGUAGE (MML); OPEN GEOGRAPHIC MODELING ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 0031096332     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754979706800304     Document Type: Article

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