Agent-based verification of von Thünen's location theory

JASSS

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Sasaki, Yuya ^a   Box, Paul ^a  

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Author keywords

Emergent Optimization; Lock In; Positive Feedbacks; Spatial Constraints; Swarm; Von Th nen's Isolated State

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042548596     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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