A&A for modelling and engineering simulations in Systems Biology

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 222-245

  Montagna, Sara ^a   Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

A A metamodel; MABS; MAS engineering; Multiagent based Simulation; SB; Systems Biology; TuCSoN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING SIMULATIONS; METAMODEL; MULTIAGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS);

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79956135898     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.017316     Document Type: Article

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