Computer simulation: achieving credible experimental results in virtual environments

  • Authors:
  • Richard E. Nance;C. Michael Overstreet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

"Computer simulation" is a broadly used term that can take on different meanings depending often on the disciplinary context. Within statistics the term is applied to repetitive sampling, described in more specific terms as "Monte Carlo simulation." Those working with computational solutions of numerical systems, typically modeling fluid flow or ballistics, use the term in place of the more specific "continuous simulation." While those modeling queueing or inventory problems in computer science, operations research or management science, use the term in place of the more accurate descriptor "discrete event simulation." This third substitution has become more prevalent; because the problem domains addressed have emerged as the most prominent. That is not to say that no meaningful work is on-going in the other disciplinary areas; rather the other two identified more readily with disciplinary areas, have profited from their ready recognition as belonging to statistics or applied mathematics.