A methodology for eliciting and modelling stakeholders' representations with Agent Based Modelling

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2927, Issue , 2004, Pages 131-148

  Becu, Nicolas ^a,b   Bousquet, François ^a,c   Barreteau, Olivier ^b   Perez, Pascal ^a,d   Walker, Andrew ^d  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c IRRI   (Thailand)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

AGENT-BASED MODELING; COMPANION MODELING APPROACH; STAKEHOLDERS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23344437542     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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