Models as interfaces

Discrete-Event Simulation and System Dynamics for Management Decision Making

Volumn 9781118349021, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-139

  Bayer, Steffen ^a   Bolt, Tim ^b   Brailsford, Sally ^c   Kapsali, Maria ^d  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boundary objects; Group model building; Interfaces; Simulation modelling; Simulation models; Social roles; Technical objects

Indexed keywords

AS INTERFACES; BOUNDARY OBJECTS; BUILDING PROJECTS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; GROUP MODEL BUILDING; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION-MODELLING; SOCIAL ROLES; TECHNICAL OBJECTS;

MODEL BUILDINGS;

EID: 84926402203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118762745.ch07     Document Type: Chapter

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