Bad arguments in the comparison of game theory and simulation in social studies

JASSS

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Balzer, Wolfgang ^a   Brendel, Karl R ^a   Hofmann, Solveig ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Confirmation; Discrete event simulation; Game theory; Impossibility theorem; Model theory; Social simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042590780     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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