Tools of the trade: A survey of various agent based modeling platforms

JASSS

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Nikolai, Cynthia ^a   Madey, Gregory ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Individual based model; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449129694     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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