Exam 13: Simulation and Modeling

Most simulations produce tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of ____________________.

We always know, in a mathematical sense, exactly how to describe certain types of systems and behaviors.

We can experiment on the model and use these results to understand the behavior of the actual system.

In a ____, we write out a set of explicit mathematical equations that describes the behavior of a system as a continuous function of time t.

It is possible to discover the same features displayed in a graph from a textual representation of the output of a model, but it would probably take much more time.

Building a good model can be a difficult task that requires us to capture, in translational form, all the important factors that influence the behavior of a system._________________________

When we process an event, we change the ____ of the simulated system in the same way that the actual system would change if this event had occurred in real life.

It is the ____ of a model who best determines what data should be collected and displayed.

A ____ is a representation of the system being studied, which we claim behaves much like the original.

The ____________________ is the fundamental way to obtain new scientific knowledge and understanding.

In a(n) ____________________ event simulation, we do not model time as continuous.

Computational steering is usually feasible using physical models._________________________

Which advantage of simulation models makes computational modeling a particularly attractive tool for designing totally new systems?

Virtually every branch of science and engineering makes use of ____________________.

What about stochastic components makes some systems difficult to model?

____ consists of looking for ways to convert the data to other forms or to different units that will make the display easier to understand and interpret.

The dictum ____ says that the results you get out of a simulation model are only as good as the data and the assumptions put into the model.

We model the behavior of a system only at an explicit and finite set of times.

Interpreting a(n) ____________________ is a great deal easier than working directly with raw numerical data.

The field of ____ is concerned with the issue of how to visualize data in a way that highlights its important characteristics and simplifies its interpretation.