Modeling as Craft

Toy boats, automobiles, and planesare models that entertain and delight us inchildhood. As we grow, we might availourselves of more advanced models that aretruer to life--more real and engaging.Interactive computer games provide evengreater flexibility, while lacking in tactilefeedback and the sort...

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Published in:	36th Annual Simulation Symposium p. 3
Main Author:	Fishwick, Paul
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 30.03.2003
Series:	ACM Conferences
Subjects:	Computing methodologies > Machine learning > Machine learning approaches > Stochastic games Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Model development and analysis Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation evaluation Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation theory General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Performance Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures > Simulator > interpreter Theory of computation > Theory and algorithms for application domains > Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
ISBN:	0769519113, 9780769519111
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Summary:	Toy boats, automobiles, and planesare models that entertain and delight us inchildhood. As we grow, we might availourselves of more advanced models that aretruer to life--more real and engaging.Interactive computer games provide evengreater flexibility, while lacking in tactilefeedback and the sort of physical immersionwe expect from every day experience. Modelsthat are used in simulation for buildingsoftware and dynamic systems can be equallyas immersive, with a variety of aestheticfeatures. For example, a factory floor modelcan achieve high degrees of realism using 2Dand 3D visualization.The factory floor, like the model plane, isiconic in representation. It is a scale model.But what of the more mathematical models,including software? The structures in thesemodels, unlike with the iconic nature of scalemodeling, employ symbolic relations whereone object refers to another withoutnecessarily resembling it. We discuss aresearch project, with examples, to show thatone can retain the abstraction and rigorexpected from mathematical structure, whilesimultaneously achieving the benefits of thesort of aesthetics, styles, and engagement thatwe experience with physical models andcomputer games.
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ISBN:	0769519113 9780769519111
DOI:	10.5555/786111.786252