Towards a generic testing framework for agent-based simulation models

2011 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 635-642

  Gürcan, Önder ^a,b   Dikenelli, Oǧuz ^a   Bernon, Carole ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELS; TESTING FRAMEWORK; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 83155190367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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