From KISS to KIDS- An 'anti-simplistic' modelling approach

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

Volumn 3415 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 130-144

  Edmonds, Bruce ^a   Moss, Scott ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SIMPLIFICATION; SIMULATION MODELS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 26844543356     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32243-6_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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