Computer Simulations in Science and Technology Studies edited by Petra Ahrweiler, Nigel Gilbert.

What is it about the structure and organisation of science and technology that has led to the spectacularly successful growth of knowledge during this century? This book explores this important and much debated question in an innovative way, by using computer simulations. The computer simulation of...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ahrweiler, Petra (Editor), Gilbert, Nigel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
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505 0 |a I Introducing simulation in social studies of science and technology -- 1 Simulation: An introduction to the idea -- 2 Modelling science as an adaptive and self-organising social system: Concepts, theories and modelling tools -- 3 Computer simulations in science and technology studies 3 -- II Simulating the logic of discovery -- 4 Causation and discovery -- 5 The discovery of the urea cycle: Computer models of scientific discovery -- 6 Connecting disconnected structures: The modelling of scientific discovery in medical literature databases -- III Evolutionary models of science and technology -- 7 The evolution of technologies -- 8 Simulating paradigm shifts using a lock-in model -- 9 SiSiFOS — simulating studies on the internal formation and the organization of science -- 10 The self-organization of social systems: A simulation of the social construction of knowledge -- 11 Modelling Krohn and Küppers’ theory of science as a self-organizing system -- IV Simulating conditions and dependencies of scientific work -- 12 Modelling creativity -- 13 Developing simulation models with policy relevance: The implications of recent UK reforms for emergent scientific disciplines -- Contributors -- References. 
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