A parallel agent-based model of land use opinions

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 121-135

  Tanga, Wenwu ^a   Bennett, David A ^b   Wanga, Shaowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Opinion modeling; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANNING METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79957531310     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2011.558597     Document Type: Article

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