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Simulation, Games and Challenges: From Schools to Enterprises

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In the last decades simulation has been widely used for training and education. Traditionally used on military and medicine education, history shows that analyzing systems through simulation models reveal to be an interesting, safe, few-resources consuming and less disruptive with the real system. Students can experiment and test their knowledge in the simulators, this is, can learn by doing. In order to increase the simulation interactivity and competition spirit, games were added, generating a new concept: simulation games. Business world sees this technique as an opportunity to improve professionals’ skills at low cost. This paper discusses the simulation, games and challenges contribution in schools and enterprises.

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  1. Coimbra Institute of Accounting and Administration, Portugal

    Pedro Sá Silva, Diogo Pedrosa & António Trigo

  2. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

    João Varajão

  3. Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal

    João Varajão

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  1. Faculty of Technology,, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Business School, Brunel University, UB8 3PH, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK

    Tillal Eldabi

  3. School of Business, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN 56563, Moorhead, USA

    Ashish Gupta

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Sá Silva, P., Pedrosa, D., Trigo, A., Varajão, J. (2011). Simulation, Games and Challenges: From Schools to Enterprises. In: Barjis, J., Eldabi, T., Gupta, A. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8_5

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