The phrase "as a kind of simulation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that resembles or functions similarly to a simulation in a particular context.
Example: "The training program was designed as a kind of simulation to prepare employees for real-life scenarios."
Alternatives: "in the form of a simulation" or "like a simulation".
Language understanding is treated as a kind of simulation that maps language onto a more concrete domain of physical action or experience, guided by background knowledge in the form of a temporal Bayesian network.
Following Lawrence Barsalou (1999; see also Barsalou et al. 2003), Prinz characterizes concept possession as a kind of simulation "tantamount to entering a perceptual state of the kind one would be in if one were to experience the thing it represents" (Prinz 2002, p. 150).
This will serve as a kind of simulation training.
"Fiction is a kind of simulation, one that runs not on computers but on minds: a simulation of selves in their interactions with others in the social world…based in experience, and involving being able to think of possible futures".
"I see my simulations as a kind of neurological gym," says Cheng, "in which art becomes a means to deliberately exercise the feelings of confusion, anxiety, and cognitive dissonance that can accompany life in a world of intense change and uncertainty.
A political critique of early online activism questioned whether online relationships offered a kind of comforting simulation of collective action.
A kind of Monte Carlo simulation was used to calculate the variance-based sensitivity indices.
This method can serve as a kind of virtual experimental vehicle as well, which makes the thermal fatigue simulation test more controllable and predictable.
But sometimes, as a kind of prediction properties can also be found by calculations in a mathematical manner, without performing simulations.
As a kind of clean pollution-free energy source, wind power is prioritized to operate in the process of probabilistic production simulation of power system.
