Empirical modelling
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Empirical modelling refers to any kind of (computer) modelling based on empirical
observations rather than on mathematically describable relationships of the system modelled.
at the University of Warwick
, England
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Early research within the group led to the development of a new language
called Eden - an Evaluator for Definitive Notations. The first implementation of Eden was by Edward Yung in 1987 and a number of contributors have been leading the development of this tool ever since.
The approach of modelling offered by Empirical Modelling (or EM as it is often known) centres on the concepts of Observation, Dependency and Agency. The importance of dependency has been particularly well researched with a number of software tools being developed that exploit dependency maintenance as a native concept.
Empirical
The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation or experimentation. Empirical data are data produced by an experiment or observation....
observations rather than on mathematically describable relationships of the system modelled.
EM
Empirical Modelling (EM), spelt with capitals to denote a particular approach and to distinguish it from the general term explained above, is a novel approach to computer-based modelling that developed from research initiated in the early 1980s by Meurig Beynon of the Department of Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Early research within the group led to the development of a new language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
called Eden - an Evaluator for Definitive Notations. The first implementation of Eden was by Edward Yung in 1987 and a number of contributors have been leading the development of this tool ever since.
The approach of modelling offered by Empirical Modelling (or EM as it is often known) centres on the concepts of Observation, Dependency and Agency. The importance of dependency has been particularly well researched with a number of software tools being developed that exploit dependency maintenance as a native concept.