An architecture for MAS simulation environments

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

Volumn 3830 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 50-67

  Steiner, Renee ^a   Leask, Gary ^a   Mili, Rym Z ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CELL CONTROLLERS; CELL HIERARCHY; GEOGRAPHICALLY BASED SIMULATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33745453054     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11678809_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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