Making sure you tackle the right problem: Linking hard and soft methods in simulation practice

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 195-204

  Pidd, Michael ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANT FEATURES; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; SIMULATION PRACTICES; SIMULATION PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 49749116783     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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