Laboratory experiments in the system dynamics field

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-106

  Arango Aramburo, Santiago ^a   Castañeda Acevedo, Jaime Andrés ^b   Olaya Morales, Yris ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84857372057     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.472     Document Type: Article

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