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This group gathers pioneers of computing methodologies whose primary contribution was building computational models of systems too complex, costly or physically inaccessible to study directly by running them forward in simulated time, including artificial life and cellular automata that model biological or physical processes from simple local rules, and digital physics, the idea that the physical universe itself can be modeled as a computation. It follows the Modeling and simulation second level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Computing methodologies. Their shared work is a model run forward to observe emergent behavior, as distinct from a model trained on data to make a prediction, which belongs to the Machine Learning group above.

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1. Wikipedia: Computer simulation
Wikimedia FoundationComputer simulation, History section, Manhattan Project sentence
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Computer simulation developed hand-in-hand with the rapid growth of the computer, following its first large-scale deployment during the Manhattan Project in World War II to model the process of nuclear detonation.
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Wikipedia: Uri Wilensky
Has Member: Uri Wilensky, Career
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specializing in agent-based modeling and complex systems education
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Ming C. Lin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ming C. Lin, Career, simulation interests
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her research interests are in physically based modeling, haptics, robotics, 3D computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive computer simulation
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Barnes-Hut simulation (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Barnes-Hut simulation, Lead
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is an approximation algorithm for performing an n-body simulation
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Berendsen thermostat (Wikipedia)
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The Berendsen thermostat is an algorithm to re-scale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.
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Elmore delay (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Elmore delay, Application in circuit modelling
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A simple interconnect (wire) between two components can be modeled as an RC ladder network.
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Detached eddy simulation (Wikipedia)
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Detached eddy simulation (DES) is a modification of a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) model in which the model switches to a subgrid scale formulation in regions fine enough for large eddy simulation (LES) calculations.
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