computer simulation

computer simulation

See: configuration management; independent review; validation; verification.

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computer simulation - (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"simulationtechnique - a practical method or art applied to some particular taskframework, model, theoretical account - a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structurestime-scale factor - the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real processextended time scale, slow time scale - (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than onefast time scale - (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one