Terminological ambiguity: Game and Simulation

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 446-463

  Klabbers, Jan H G ^a  

^a KMPC ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actor simulation; Closed models; Game; Gaming simulation; Interactive simulation; Link trainer; Mathematical analysis; Open models; Operations research; Play; Problem framing; Pure machine simulation; Qualitative model; Quantitative model; Role play; Rules of correspondence; Simulation; Simulation games

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749120296     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878108325500     Document Type: Article

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