Modeling and simulation of large-scale Systems: a systematic comparison of modeling paradigms

@article{Schweiger2020ModelingAS,
  title={Modeling and simulation of large-scale Systems: a systematic comparison of modeling paradigms},
  author={Gerald Schweiger and Henrik Nilsson and Josef Schoeggl and Wolfgang Birk and Alfred Posch},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/1909.00484}
}
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