This paper describes results of the simulation of social objects, the dependenceof schoolchildren's professional abilities on their personal characteristics. Thesimulation tool is the articial neural network (ANN) technology. Results of acomparison of the time expense for training the ANN and...

This special section includes papers originally presented at a workshop on \'Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation\' in July 2004 at the University of Koblenz, in which some thirty colleagues participated. It had been our impression that there was (and still is) a small, but growing number...