Can agent-based simulation improve dialogue between science and theology?

JASSS

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Metzler, Ted ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent based Simulation; Altruism; Computer Science; Dialogue; Economics; Sociobiology; Theology

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EID: 2942586904     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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