Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Technical Systems

Organizational Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 323-367

  Shah, Anuj P ^a   Pritchett, Amy R ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Computer simulation; Duality; Socio technical systems; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956336987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0471739448.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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