computer simulation
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(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
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Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
It wasn't so long ago that complexity thinking was synonymous with bottom-up computer simulation. However, in the past 5-10 years we have seen other threads emerge from this mathematically focused starting point that acknowledge the profound philosophical implications of complexity.
a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated
Computer simulation is often used as an adjunct to, or substitution for, modeling systems for which simple closed form analytic solutions are not possible.
Computer simulation Computational modeling is a tool used in mathematical psychology and cognitive psychology to simulate behavior.