An Introduction to Distributed Simulation

Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Domains

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 373-402

  Wainer, Gabriel A ^a   Al Zoubi, Khaldoon ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithm synchronization for parallel and distributed simulation; Distributed simulation model reuse via heterogeneous simulation component interoperation; Distributed simulation technologies simulations on distributed computer systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886209133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470590621.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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