Size matters: Large-scale replications of experiments with fearlus

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-467

  Gotts, Nicholas M ^a   Polhill, J Gary ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; model size; network topology; replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956470684     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525910002670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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