Chapter 31 Computational Laboratories for Spatial Agent-Based Models

Handbook of Computational Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1511-1548

  Dibble, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based simulation; computational economics; computational laboratory; computational social science; inference; scale free networks; small world networks; spatial economics; spatial networks; spatial social science; synthetic landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049129234     PISSN: 15740021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0021(05)02031-9     Document Type: Review

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