Title:

An Intelligent Simulator of Chemical Reactions

Objective:

My objective is to develop a program that can intelligently predict the results
of certain chemical reactions, and how and why they occur. A graphic simulation
of the compounds and molecules and their respective subatomic particles can 
help the understanding of the simulation.

Justification:

There are two potential uses for this project. One is for educational purposes,
for helping students understand what actually happens in chemical reactions, 
as opposed to some of the awkward in-class explanations or sometimes unclear 
or ambiguous Lewis Dot Diagrams. Since many structures happen in three 
dimensions, explaining them can be difficult, especially on paper in 2D. This 
project hopes to rectify that. Another possible purpose is to predict reactions
that are difficult or unfeasible to perform. If the program could be developed 
intricately and intelligently enough, it could predict the outcome of reactions
that the experimentor had not performed, by just using the laws of chemistry.

Description:

It is possible to involve elements of Artificial Intelligence and even possibly
parallel computing into this project. Each atom, or each particle, could be 
it's own intelligent agent, trying to maximize it's stability in it's 
environment by acting upon the other agents (or atoms, or particles), i.e. 
donating, receiving, or sharing electrons. Each agent could also be given it's 
own process in parallel with each other, theoretically, though it does not have
any obvious great positive impacts on the rest of the program.

Limitations:

Most laws in chemistry and physics are not clear-cut and are rife with 
exceptions. It could prove difficult, or impossible to account for every single
possibility with an algorithm to simulate it. Also, I would have to learn 
chemical reactions again, which may cut down on some of the time I have for 
the rest of the project.