Procedure to develop an agent-based model of a Swiss forest wood fuel market;Vorgehen zur agentenbasierten Modellierung eines schweizerischen Waldenergieholzmarktes

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen

Volumn 163, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 422-431

  Kostadinov, Fabian ^a   Steubing, Bernhard ^b   Holm, Stefan ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs und Forschungsanstalt ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Energy wood; Market simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867800303     PISSN: 00367818     EISSN: 22351469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3188/szf.2012.0422     Document Type: Article

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