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Toward a Formal Theory of Modeling and Simulation: Structure Preserving Morphisms

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Volume 19 , Issue 4 (October 1972) table of contents

Pages: 742 - 764

Year of Publication: 1972

ISSN:0004-5411

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Bernard P. Zeigler

Technion, Department of Computer Science, Haifa, Israel and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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