Simulation and modeling as the essence of computational science
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Abstract
Recent developments of computational methods supporting scientific research have led to the rise of a variety of computational science disciplines, such as computational physics, computational biology, computational chemistry, computational social science, and many more. Although simulation is now widely regarded as the third pillar of science, with epistemological status comparable to formal theorizing and experimentation, the insight that computational science is as interwoven with simulation as traditional science is with modeling, has not yet been sufficiently communicated. As a result, important insights from the modeling and simulation discipline are not known or are ignored by traditional scientists entering the computational branch of their discipline. This presentation contributes to closing this gap by giving examples of how modeling and simulated based research contributes to improve computational sciences, including having a look at the supporting philosophy of science perspectives.
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