Garp3 - Workbench for qualitative modelling and simulation

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 263-281

  Bredeweg, Bert ^a   Linnebank, Floris ^a   Bouwer, Anders ^a   Liem, Jochem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge and models; Knowledge capture; Qualitative knowledge and reasoning; Qualitative modelling and simulation; Software and workbench

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 70649102096     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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