Simulation in business and industry: How simulation context can affect simulation practice?

Business and Industry Symposium, BIS 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 152-159

  Ahmed, Rizwan ^a   Robinson, Stewart ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Simulation context; Simulation modelling practice; Simulation modelling process

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING LANGUAGES;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SIMULATION CONTEXT; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION PRACTICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 85015917992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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