Epistemology of modeling and simulation

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1152-1166

  Tolk, Andreas ^a   Ihrig, Martin ^b   Page, Ernest H ^c   Szabo, Claudia ^d   Heath, Brian L ^e   Padilla, Jose J ^f   Dante Suarez, E ^g   Weirich, Paul ^h   Yilmaz, Levent ⁱ  

^a SimIS Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e CARDINAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

ⁱ AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84894128908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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