Computer simulations as experiments

Synthese

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 557-574

  Barberousse, Anouk ^a   Franceschelli, Sara ^b,c   Imbert, Cyrille ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c REHSEIS   (France)

Author keywords

Data; Experiments; Machine implementation; Programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650483536     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9430-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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