Modes of simulation practice: Approaches to business and military simulation

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 513-523

  Robinson, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Simulation practice; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

MILITARY OPERATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FACILITATION; SIMULATION PRACTICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 1642356551     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-190X(02)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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