The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling An Example from Cancer Biology /

Model integration  the process by which different modelling efforts can be brought together to simulate the target system  is a core technology in the field of Systems Biology. In the work presented here model integration was addressed directly taking cancer systems as an example. An in-depth lite...

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Main Authors: Patel, Manish. (Author), Nagl, Sylvia. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Understanding Complex Systems,
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15603-8
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505 0 # |a Part 1 Introduction -- Part 2 Nature to Numbers: Complex Systems Modelling of Cancer -- Part 3 Coping with Complexity: Modelling of Complex Systems -- Part 4 Complexity and Model Integration: Formalisations -- Part 5 Novel Strategies for Integrating Models into Systems-level Simulations -- Part 6 Experiments in Model Integration -- Part 7 Discussion. 
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