A survey of customization support in agent-based business process simulation tools

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Robinson, William N ^a   Ding, Yi ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Application frameworks; Encapsulation; Event driven simulation; Modularity; Software product line engineering

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS; EVENT-DRIVEN SIMULATIONS; MODULARITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERINGS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77958034463     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 15581195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1842713.1842717     Document Type: Article

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