Nuances of benchmarking agent-based and equation-based models of an oil refinery supply chain

2008 1st International Conference on Infrastructure Systems and Services: Building Networks for a Brighter Future, INFRA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Van Dam, Koen H ^a   Adhitya, Arief ^b   Srinivasan, Rajagopalan ^c   Lukszo, Zofia ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; BENCHMARKING PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL ELEMENTS; OIL REFINERIES; STOCHASTICS; SYSTEM DESCRIPTION; THREE MODELS;

BENCHMARKING; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFINING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77952381198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFRA.2008.5439574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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