A unifying multimodel taxonomy and agent-supported multisimulation strategy for decision-support

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 97, Issue , 2008, Pages 193-226

  Yilmaz, Levent ^a   Tolk, Andreas ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

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EID: 40449135682     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76829-6_8     Document Type: Article

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