# Show Reference: "The World as a Process: Simulations in the Natural and Social Science"

The World as a Process: Simulations in the Natural and Social Science In Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View (1996), pp. 77-100 by Stephan Hartmann edited by Rainer Hegselmann, Ulrich Mueller, Klaus G. Troitzsch
@article{hartmann-1996,
author = {Hartmann, Stephan},
booktitle = {Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View},
editor = {Hegselmann, Rainer and Mueller, Ulrich and Troitzsch, Klaus G.},
isbn = {9780792341253},
keywords = {research, science, simulation},
location = {Dordrecht},
pages = {77--100},
posted-at = {2014-01-06 11:31:57},
priority = {2},
publisher = {Kluwer},
title = {The World as a Process: Simulations in the Natural and Social Science},
year = {1996}
}


A model is called dynamic, if it... includes assumptions about the time-evolution of the system. ... Simulations are closely related to dynamic models. More concretely, a simulation results when the equations of the underlying dynamic model are solved. This model is designed to imitate the time evolution of a real system. To put it another way, a simulation imitates one process by another process. In this definition, the term `process’ refers solely to some object or system whose state changes in time. If the simulation is run on a computer, it is called a computer simulation.''