Structuring qualitative data for agent-based modelling

JASSS

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ghorbani, Amineh ^a   Dijkema, Gerard ^a   Schrauwen, Noortje ^b  

^a Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual modelling; Ethnography; Institutional analysis; MAIA; Qualitative Data; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924973578     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.2573     Document Type: Article

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