Enhancing participative policy making through modelling and simulation: A state of the art review

Proceedings of the European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems - Informing Responsible Management: Sustainability in Emerging Economies, EMCIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 210-222

  Charalabidis, Yannis ^a   Loukis, Euripidis ^a   Androutsopoulou, Aggeliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling simulation; E participation; Public participation; Public policy; Simulation modelling; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; DISCRETE EVENTS; E-PARTICIPATION; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; SECOND GENERATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SYSTEM THEORY;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84857589313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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