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Computational Science/Scientific Computing

I switched the redirects. It seems to me that the name Computational Science is winning (e.g., http://www.siam.org/students/resources/report.php). JJL 23:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Advertising links

The page should not have advertising links. JJL removed one, rightly. I removed two more but JJL put them back. It is not acceptable to have links to specific colleges running computation courses. There are hundreds of such courses - why should two be singled out for free advertising on wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.243.220.41 (talk) 16:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is advertising in this case. Both links have extensive materials on computational science education, which is why I included them. (I'm not associated with either in any way.) Take a look at the links and let me know what you think. JJL (talk) 17:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think the bigger problem is the actual advertising. Currently there are links to websites that are nothing but fake reviews and links to commercial software. I am going to delete them as they are not real computational science resources but nothing more than ad sites. As for college courses linked, if they are reasonable, why not? I doubt that anyone will assume that links from WP are an official endorsement! 128.200.46.67 (talk) 00:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Higher quality article needed.

Computational science is a huge subject, and such a small article hardly does it any justice. Those who read this article would likely be left scratching their heads wondering exactly what the field really is. I suggest adding some real world examples of what is done. For example, some pictures/animations etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.168.173.97 (talk) 17:59, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Definition--Sources

I consider the SIAM reports fairly definitive; e.g. [1]: "CSE is a broad multidisciplinary area that encompasses applications in science/engineering, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computer science. Computer models and computer simulations have become an important part of the research repertoire, supplementing (and in some cases replacing) experimentation. Going from application area to computational results requires domain expertise, mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, algorithm development, software implementation, program execution, analysis, validation and visualization of results. CSE involves all of this." Is the definition in the article a reasonable summary of this? JJL (talk) 18:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=170795 (pdf): "An inter-disciplinary approach to doing science on computers." As an ACM conference publication it is peer-reviewed. Not sure if the SIAM page was peer-reviewed. pgr94 (talk) 19:15, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Only mathematical models?

Hi. The current state of the article narrows down computational science to the evaluation of mathematical models via computer simulation. You can do scientific research through agent-based models which are computational models but not necessarily mathematical one. It's not fair to ignore this type of modelling so wide-spread thorough scientific disciplines e.g. individual-based modelling in ecology, agent-based modelling in social sciences.

I would suggest replacing the mathematical model bias of the current state of the page with a more balanced one. Let me know what you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tg1w (talk • contribs) 09:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]