On building an organizationally realistic agent-based model of local interaction and emergent network structure

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1827-1834

  Hazy, James K ^a   Tivnan, Brian F ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ARTIFICIAL ORGANIZATION; LOCAL NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK STRUCTURE;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 17744397361     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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