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In this paper we present the capabilities and behavior of the tutoring system MAS, a system to experiment with (simulations of) complex macroeconomic environments. The users of the system may assume either the role of the State or the role of a company belonging to a specific productive sector. In fact, our system allows students to interact and modify the behavior, both in the short and long-term, of a real scale economy.
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Research partially supported by the Spanish MCYT project TIC2003-07848-C02-01 and the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha project PAC-03-001.
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Núñez, M., Rodríguez, I., Rubio, F. (2004). A Tutoring System Supporting Experimentation with Virtual Macroeconomic Environments. In: Bussler, C., Fensel, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30106-6_37
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