An agent-based simulator driven by variants of Self-Organizing Maps

Neurocomputing

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-224

  Resta, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based simulations; Economic systems dynamics; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ECONOMICS;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; MODEL OF ECONOMICS; POLICY INTERVENTION; PRODUCTION EFFORTS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS(SOMS); SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ORGANIZING MAP; SIMULATOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84924052219     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.02.062     Document Type: Article

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