On the engineering of agent-based simulations of social activities with social networks

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 625-638

  Ronald, Nicole ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^b   Jonker, Catholijn ^c   Arentze, Theo ^a   Timmermans, Harry ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity travel modelling; Agent based modelling; Agent oriented software engineering; Social network modelling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-TRAVEL MODELLING; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; LAND-USE PLANNING; MAKING DECISION; META MODEL; MODEL DESIGN; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL ELEMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SPACES; SPACE AND TIME; STRUCTURED APPROACH; STRUCTURED DESIGN;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DESIGN; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MODELS;

EID: 84858079024     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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