Multi-timescale event-scheduling in multi-agent immune simulation models

BioSystems

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-145

  Guo, Zaiyi ^a   Tay, Joc Cing ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Event scheduling; Immune systems modeling; Multi agent models; Multi timescale simulation; Update scheme

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TIMESCALE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 37448999931     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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