00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002767 10110/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10109/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221010015323 10109/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10110/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520002767 221010################|##########|#eng## 9781402053740 eng 003.3 003.3 SIM Simulation : Pragmatic Construction of Reality Gunter Kuppers and Terry Shinn Simulation : Pragmatic Construction of Reality / Edited by Johannes Lenhard Dordrecht : Springer, 2006 vi, 211p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.209-211 This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simultaion from an epistemological, instutional 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. Sociology - Computer simulation 10109/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10110/MKRI-P/XI-2008