What-if analysis through simulation-optimization hybrids

Proceedings - 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gavanelli, Marco ^a   Milano, Michela ^b   Holland, Alan ^c   O'Sullivan, Barry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Policy modeling social simulation combinatorial optimization

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION PROCESS; OPTIMIZATION AND DECISION MAKINGS; POLICY MAKERS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL ACTIONS; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS; WHAT-IF ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85087536675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7148/2012-0624-0630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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