Environment mediated multi agent simulation tools-A comparison

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-48

  Arunachalam, S ^a   Zalila Wenkstern, R ^a   Steiner, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-AGENT BASED SIMULATIONS; MULTI-AGENT SIMULATIONS; NETLOGO;

CYBERNETICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 64849090845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASOW.2008.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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