Computing as model-based empirical science

SIGSIM-PADS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on SIGSIM Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 205-212

  Fishwick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Creative automata; Modeling; Virtual analog

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS;

ABSTRACTION; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; CREATIVE AUTOMATA; DISCRETE EVENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; VIRTUAL ANALOGS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84901855405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2601381.2601391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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