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Are We Done Yet? or When is Our Model Perfect (Enough)?

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  1. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    A. Mertens

  2. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Thomas Feliciani

  3. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    S. Heidari & Frank Dignum

  4. Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Frank Dignum

  5. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Peer-Olaf Siebers

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Mertens, A., Feliciani, T., Heidari, S., Siebers, PO., Dignum, F. (2021). Are We Done Yet? or When is Our Model Perfect (Enough)?. In: Ahrweiler, P., Neumann, M. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_28

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