Integration of a GIS-Bayesian Network agent-based model in a planning support system as framework for policy generation

URISA Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-52

  Kocabas, Verda ^a   Dragicevic, Suzana ^b   McCann, Eugene ^b  

^a 8888 University Drive ^*  (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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