A Semantic Grid service for experimentation with an agent-based model of land-use change

JASSS

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Polhill, J Gary ^a   Pignotti, Edoardo ^a   Gotts, Nicholas M ^a   Edwards, Pete ^a   Preece, Alun ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent based social simulation; Experiments; Ontologies; Replication; Semantic grid

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EID: 34047208361     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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