Contrasting a system dynamics model and an agent-based model of food web evolution

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

Volumn 4442 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 57-68

  Norling, Emma ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FOOD WEB EVOLUTION; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 37249069105     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76539-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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