Repast HPC: A Platform for Large-Scale Agent-Based Modeling

Large-Scale Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 81-109

  Collier, Nicholson ^a   North, Michael ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Example application, rumor spreading; Parallelism; Repast HPC, for large scale agent based modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886185207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118130506.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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