Modeling with archetypes: An effective approach to dealing with complexity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2809, Issue , 2004, Pages 127-138

  Schwaninger, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; MANAGEMENT PROCESS; MODEL VALIDATION; REAL-WORLD; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 0242339719     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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