model-building

There are a lot of interesting methods that have been developed in control theory over the last few decades that actually deserve to be better integrated into general analysis, and model-building, and so on.

Wolfram Blog : The R&D Pipeline for Mathematica 2009

The interesting question is why ... model-building took over as the standard intellectual exercise ... technique and model-building came along with the expanding availability of data, and each reinforces the other.

Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

While Butterworth acknowledges that the worlds he creates Online aren't as labor-intensive as the model-building he engaged in as a youth, he feels that the games industry has become, in effect, "a tribal elder for the world's teenagers, pushing them through ever more complex feats of prestidigitation."

Delia Lloyd: Five Virtues of Video Games Delia Lloyd 2011

Finally, after defending model-building, Solow offers this explanation of how mathematics can go overboard.

Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Climate science is an exercise in model-building, and I think that economists have a lot of model-building experience that is relevant.

Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Once you draw something you should switch back and forth between that and model-building because it's easier to see what you can improve and what you want to change.

Alla Kazovsky: Seeing It in a Different Light Alla Kazovsky 2011

While Butterworth acknowledges that the worlds he creates Online aren't as labor-intensive as the model-building he engaged in as a youth, he feels that the games industry has become, in effect, "a tribal elder for the world's teenagers, pushing them through ever more complex feats of prestidigitation."

Delia Lloyd: Five Virtues of Video Games Delia Lloyd 2011

I would remark parenthetically that this experience with model-building may explain my willingness to challenge the consensus on global warming.

Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

To that end, Mr. Farmer and three economists — Robert Axtell of George Mason University, John Geanakoplos of Yale University and Peter Howitt of Brown University — are hoping to involve dozens of experts on the behavior of consumers, investors and firms in a massive model-building project.

Economists Mark Whitehouse 2010

The big steps sometimes required in evolutionary development seem instead to require the ability of the agent responsible for non-random variation to actually design, including the faculties of memory, visualization or model-building, prediction and other reasoning processes expected only with a quasi-sentient being.

Coordinated Evolution 2007