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EnglishThe aim of this paper is to describe a computer-based application centered on the teaching style of learning by discovery. A simulation tool for a simple model for entropy is presented. We frame the simulation in the theory of Markov chains, and more precisely of birth-death processes. The user is thus lead to conjecture, or at least gain some feeling for, the structure of the eigensystem of the stochastic matrix associated to the birth-death process, and its influence on the behaviour of the system it describes.
http://hdl.handle.net/11386/1068046| Titolo: | A simple model for simulating entropy phenomena using Markov chains |
| Autori interni: | D'APICE, Ciro GARGIULO, Giuliano MANZO, Rosanna SALERNO, Saverio |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to describe a computer-based application centered on the teaching style of learning by discovery. A simulation tool for a simple model for entropy is presented. We frame the simulation in the theory of Markov chains, and more precisely of birth-death processes. The user is thus lead to conjecture, or at least gain some feeling for, the structure of the eigensystem of the stochastic matrix associated to the birth-death process, and its influence on the behaviour of the system it describes. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11386/1068046 |
| ISBN: | 9781565551787 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1.2 Proceedings con ISBN |
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