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What are there tools that help simulate complex systems? Things like biochemical balances in the human body, economies, enzyme actions and homeostasis, environm
by goombastic 9y ago
What are there tools that help simulate complex systems? Things like biochemical balances in the human body, economies, enzyme actions and homeostasis, environment and climate? Etc etc...? What tools are used by those in the profession?
- ColanR 9y agoThat sounds like an incredibly broad domain of tools.
- goombastic 9y agoThe tools are probably probably domain specific as well. But are there any standard/OTS commercial tools for this?
- rheh 9y agoI guess simulations are commonly just large number crunching machines based on the matrix-algebra, but for example fluid-simulations can gain quite a lot of power from algorithms that divide the space into sub-cells and focusing on areas with more detail.
- brylie 9y agoAgent-Based Modeling is an approach to understanding complex systems by simulating interactions between actors in a population. The actors can be modeled with varying properties, and the output of the model often produces emergent behavior. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model Check out the NetLogo ABM environment for several pre-built example models. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
- RossBencina 9y agoThe following research that uses Harel Statecharts for cell-level modelling may be of interest: Bloch N, Weiss G, Szekely S, Harel D (2015) An Interactive Tool for Animating Biology, and Its Use in Spatial and Temporal Modeling of a Cancerous Tumor and Its Microenvironment. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0133484. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133484 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133484