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| − | A computer simulation, a computer model or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems, or to observe their behaviour <ref name="Strogatz 2007"> Steven Strogatz (2007). The End of Insight, in Brockman, John, What is your | + | A [[computer simulation]], a [[computer model]] or a [[computational model]] is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract [[model]] of a particular [[system]]. Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical [[modelling]] of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems, or to observe their behaviour <ref name="Strogatz 2007"> Steven Strogatz (2007). The End of Insight, in Brockman, John, What is your |
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Revision as of 11:53, 4 June 2014
A computer simulation, a computer model or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems, or to observe their behaviour [1].
Literature
- ↑ Steven Strogatz (2007). The End of Insight, in Brockman, John, What is your dangerous idea? HarperCollins.
