On the development of Agent-Based Models for infrastructure evolution

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-167

  Nikolic, Igor ^a   Dijkema, Gerard P J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ABM; Agent Based Model; Evolution; Evolutionary process design; Infrastructure evolution

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SIMULATION PLATFORM;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; INFRASTRUCTURE EVOLUTION; INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL DECISION;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 78650255120     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2010.031072     Document Type: Article

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