Making models match: Replicating an agent-based model

JASSS

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Wilensky, Uri ^a   Rand, William ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Ethnocentrism; Replication; Scientific method; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249009212     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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