A simple agent-based social impact theory model of student stem selection

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 278-289

  Allen, Theodore T ^a   Davis, Nixon ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS; SOCIAL CHALLENGES; SOCIAL IMPACT; STANDARD DESIGN;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 79951669111     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2010.5679155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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