A methodology for complex social simulations

JASSS

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cioffi Revilla, Claudio ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent based modeling methodology; Computational social science; Inner Asia; M2M; Social complexity; Social simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349086070     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1528     Document Type: Article

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