Asynchronous and synchronous updating in individual-based models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 212, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 522-527

  Caron Lormier, Geoffrey ^a   Humphry, Roger W ^b   Bohan, David A ^a   Hawes, Cathy ^b   Thorbek, Pernille ^c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Ecological modelling; IBM; Scheduling; Simulation model; Trophic interaction

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCHEDULING;

INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; INTERACTION COMPLEXITY; POPULATION DENSITIES; SIMULATION MODEL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ECOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 39749159958     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.10.049     Document Type: Article

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