Social theory and system dynamics practice

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00192-1MaRDI QIDQ1124809zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David C. Lane

Publication date 28 November 1999

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00192-1

zbMATH Keywords

philosophyrelationships with other disciplinessimulationssystem dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of mathematical modeling (00A71) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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