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To examine philosophical foundations of Modeling and Simulation, we present and clarify relations between reality, representations of reality, and simulation. The role experimentation and experience are delineated along with purposes of simulation, knowledge generation via simulated experimentation, and ethics. In relation to experimentation, the need for computational reproducibility and replicability are emphasized to improve credibility of simulation studies.
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Ören, T., Yilmaz, L. (2013). Philosophical Aspects of Modeling and Simulation. In: Tolk, A. (eds) Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31140-6_8
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