Agent street: An environment for exploring agent-based models in Second Life

JASSS

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Crooks, Andrew ^a   Hudson Smith, Andrew ^a   Dearden, Joel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agent Based Modelling; Pedestrian Evacuation; Second Life; Segregation; Virtual Worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350629798     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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