Distributing RePast agent-based simulations with HLA

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1225-1256

  Minson, R ^a   Theodoropoulos, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed simulation; Multi agent simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MIDDLEWARE;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT SIMULATION PLATFORMS; COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS; HIGHER LEVEL ARCHITECTURES; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 47049100882     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1280     Document Type: Article

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