The impact of programming paradigms on the efficiency of an individual-based simulation model

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 557-569

  Barnes, David J ^a   Hopkins, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barley yellow dwarf virus; C++; Fortran 95; Java; Object oriented programming

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

BARLEY YELLOW DWARF VIRUS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0345329424     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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