First, they give credence to the supposition that story's job is to simulate potential situations.
The project is code-named Compass, and its initial goal is to simulate the brain of the macaque monkey (commonly used in laboratory studies of neuroscience).
One way to estimate a team's chance of making the playoffs is to simulate the remainder of the season a large number of times.
One is to simulate tennis and hold a Grand Slam of basketball, playing the men's and women's Final Fours simultaneously in the same city on a trial basis.
One answer may come on Dec. 17 with the official debut of Sims Online, an Internet version of the popular PC game in which the goal is to simulate everyday life -- by building a network of families, friends and wealth.
The best they can do on this point is to simulate the net effect of all the clouds or aerosols in a grid box, a process known as "parameterization".
Ordinarily, genetic algorithms require hundreds of "organisms" to be evaluated each generation, but given how time-consuming it is to simulate a diesel engine cycle, Dr. Senecal needed a better technique.
What it can do, which no documentary or history book can achieve, is to simulate the sense of being an observer in the bunker, watching the drama unfold and reach its grisly climax.
Recent polling suggests that people who know someone who is gay are more likely to support same-sex marriage, and one of the goals of the new campaign is to simulate the experience of knowing someone who is gay.
A key approach is to simulate the particles using lattice quantum chromodynamics, or lattice QCD.
The objective is to simulate an unpopulated circuit board consisting of one thru hole via.
