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Modelling and Simulation: Exploring Dynamic System Behaviour - Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications Louis G. Birta Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2013 edition
Modelling and Simulation: Exploring Dynamic System Behaviour - Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications
Louis G. Birta
This textbook presents a practical introduction to the fundamental aspects of modelling and simulation. includes a new chapter that presents a novel world view, the Activity-Object world view, which eases the translation of a conceptual model specification in the ABCmod framework into a simulation program;
455 pages, 184 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 23, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781447168362 |
| Publishers | Springer London Ltd |
| Pages | 437 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 23 mm · 635 g |
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