Advancing cognitive agent-based modeling: Personifying the agents

Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2009, SCSC 2009, Part of the 2009 International Summer Simulation Multiconference, ISMc

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 54-60

  Banks, Catherine M ^a   Sokolowski, John A ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent personification; Agent based modeling; Social science simulation

Indexed keywords

AGENT BEHAVIOR; AGENT-BASED MODELING; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; HUMAN ASPECTS; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTORY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 77951937819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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