Identifying the decision to be supported: A review of papers from environmental modelling and software

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-80

  Sojda, Richard S ^a   Chen, Serena H ^b   El Sawah, Sondoss ^b   Guillaume, Joseph H A ^b   Jakeman, Anthony J ^b   Lautenbach, Sven ^c   McIntosh, Brian S ^d   Rizzoli, Andrea E ^e   Seppelt, Ralf ^c   Struss, Peter ^f   Voinov, Alexey A ^g   Volk, Martin ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d International Water Centre   (Australia)

^e DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Decision support tool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894109476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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