Using docking/replication to verify and validate computational models

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4432-4438

  Olaru, D ^a   Purchase, S ^a   Denize, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Docking; Replication; Simulation; Validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FUZZY LOGIC; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXTREME CONDITIONS; INNOVATION PROCESS; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; VALIDATION STAGES; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 85086270039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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