Towards an ontological foundation of discrete event simulation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 652-664

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENTS; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; META-THEORY; ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ONTOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 79951651822     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2010.5679121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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