LEVINS AND THE LURE OF ARTIFICIAL WORLDS.

What is it about simulation models that has led some practitioners to treat them as potential sources of empirical data on the real-world systems being simulated; that is, to treat simulations as 'artificial worlds' within which to perform computational 'experiments'? Here we use the work of Richard...

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Published in:	Monist Vol. 97; no. 3; pp. 301 - 321
Main Author:	Bullock, Seth
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Jul2014
Subjects:	Simulation methods & models Levins, Richard Operations research Systems engineering Virtual reality
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost