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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Simulation
    sub title: Pragmatic Construction of Reality
  name:
    name part: Lenhard, Johannes.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Küppers, Günter.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Shinn, Terry.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 211 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. Rich case studies go far beyond documentation of simulation’s capacity for application in many domains, they also explore the "functional" and "structural" debate that continues to traverse simulation thought and action. One here asks if simulation deeply transforms science, or instead constitutes a limited tool that principally extends the repertory of erstwhile practice. Does simulation comprise a novel form of experiment, or rather operate as a mechanism which extends standing forms of experimentation? What are simulation’s relations with models or theory, for example? These studies further query to what extent and in what ways simulation may be regarded as a discipline, a special species of instrument, or as transdisciplinary.
  table of contents: Computer Simulation: Practice, Epistemology, and Social Dynamics -- Imitating Models -- The Shape of Molecules to Come -- From Representation to Production: Parsers and Parsing in Language Technology -- Foundations for the Simulation of Ecosystems -- Models, Models Everywhere -- Layers of Integration -- From Hierarchical to Network-Like Integration: A Revolution of Modeling Style in Computer-Simulation -- The Difference Between Answering a ‘Why’ Question and Answering a ‘How Much’ Question -- Struggle Between Specificity and Generality: How Do Infectious Disease Models Become a Simulation Platform? -- Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Simulation at the Nanoscale -- Social Practice -- Locating the Dry Lab on the Lab Map -- Simulation Uncertainty and the Challenge of Postnormal Science -- When is Simulation a Research Technology? Practices, Markets, and Lingua Franca.
  note: edited by Johannes Lenhard, Günter Küppers, Terry Shinn.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 25
  identifier: 9781402053757
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5375-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204182453.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-5375-7