An agent-based framework for visual-interactive ecosystem simulations

Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 139-152

  Campos, André M C ^a   Hill, David R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological modeling; Multi agent systems; Object oriented application framework reusability; Object oriented design; Visual interactive simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIAGENT VISUAL INTERACTIVE SIMULATION (MAVIS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032324996     PISSN: 07406797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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