Modeling for All Scales: An Introduction to System SimulationElsevier, 03.02.2000 - 458 Seiten All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems. These sorts of models are usually based upon a mathematical foundation that can be difficult to manipulate especially for students. Modeling for All Scales uses object-oriented programming to erect and evaluate the efficacy of models of small, intermediate and large scale systems. Such models allow users to employ intuitively based symbols and a systems ecology approach. The authors have been leaders in the systems ecology community and have originated much of the scientific vocabulary of the field. After introducing modeling and its benefits, there is a series of chapters detailing the more particular elements of successful simulation. There follows another series of chapters, each devoted to models of different sorts of systems. Small scale models of growth, competition, and evolution give way, successively, to larger and larger scale models such as international trade and the global geobiosphere. Anyone interested in an easy to use approach to modeling complex systems authored by perhaps the most original systems ecologists of the century will want this book. To further enhance the users ability to apply the lessons of this book, there is included a CD-ROM disc which provides the fundamental tools for modeling at all scales. Key Features * The book makes it possible to teach modeling and simulation without much prior knowledge of mathematics * Reasons for modeling and simulation are discussed * The book makes modeling and simulation fun by keeping focused on simplified overview minimodels that have important principles to science and society * The steps in successive chapters are arranged so that readers can teach themselves modeling, simulation, and the programming necessary to simulate the systems they diagram * The CD-ROM has minimodel programs and versions of QuickBasic and EXTEND to run them |
Inhalt
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SIMULATION | 49 |
FUNDAMENTAL MINIMODELS | 165 |
APPLICATION | 341 |
Appendix A PROGRAMMING ENERGY SYSTEMS BLOCKS FOR SIMULATING WITH EXTEND | 385 |
Appendix B NOTES ON COMPUTER USE AND BASIC PROGRAMMING | 399 |
Appendix C ANSWERS TO WHAT IF EXPERIMENTAL PROBLEMS | 411 |
Appendix D USE OF ENERGY SYSTEMS SYMBOLS | 433 |
Appendix E CONTENTS OF THE CD SUPPLIED WITH THIS BOOK | 441 |
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READING | 445 |
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Modeling for All Scales: An Introduction to System Simulation Howard Thomas Odum,Elisabeth C. Odum Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2000 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
assets Q autocatalytic available energy BASIC for Macintosh biomass calculated calibration carbon dioxide Chapter CHIPMUNK BASIC coefficients complex connector constant consumer consumption curves cycle decreases depreciation develop diagram and equations dialog box Double click economic ecosystem energy flow energy source Energy systems diagram energy systems language environmental Equations Examples Experimental Problems Explanation of Equations EXPO exponential growth EXTEND faster flows and storages folder forest fossil fuel grams grow happens heat sink icon blocks included increase inflow input iteration limited linear Macintosh materials mathematical minimodels minus mouse nonrenewable numbers nutrients organic matter oscillations outflow output oxygen pathway PC&CYCLE photosynthesis plot population production process Program in Table proportion pulse QUICKBASIC recycle renewable represent scale screen shows simulation graph sine wave species spreadsheet steady STELLA storage Q sunlight TANK model tion transformity turnover unit values
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xix - Some other introductions to simulation are listed in the references section at the end of the book.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
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