Observations on new developments in Composability and multi-resolution modeling

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 859-870

  Davis, Paul K ^a   Tolk, Andreas ^b  

^a BRAND Corporation   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY;

COMPOSABILITY; COUNTER-TERRORISM; MULTI-RESOLUTION MODELING; NEW DEVELOPMENTS; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; WAR GAMING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 49749107586     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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