Designing, formulating, and communicating agent-based models

Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 361-377

  Grimm, Volker ^a   Railsback, Steven F ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84955683396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8927-4_17     Document Type: Chapter

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