Towards an ontological foundation of agent-based simulation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 284-295

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a   Wagner, Gerd ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; FOUNDATIONAL ONTOLOGIES; MODELING LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; REAL-WORLD SYSTEM; SIMULATION MODEL;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84858055708     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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