Computer Simulation

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DIESIS project

The DIESIS project [1] gives the following definition:

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 [2].


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  1. http://www.diesis-project.eu/
  2. Steven Strogatz (2007). The End of Insight, in Brockman, John, What is your dangerous idea? HarperCollins.

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