Stretching the Traditional Notion of Experiment in Computing: Explorative Experiments.
Experimentation represents today a 'hot' topic in computing. If experiments made with the support of computers, such as computer simulations, have received increasing attention from philosophers of science and technology, questions such as 'what does it mean to do experiments in computer science and...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 647 - 666 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2016
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