Agent-Based Modelling

GeoComputation, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 203-239

  Benenson, Itzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 85137920911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b17091-16     Document Type: Chapter

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