Simulation

International audienceIn the context of computer, the primary situation in which the term simulation is used is when the result of the computation of an algorithm produces data that are similar to data produced by a real (non-computerized) system, considered as a reference system. But it is generally accepted, in computer sciences, that the word simulation refers to a second approach: the computation of the cause that produces a given phenomenon, and not to the computation/synthesis of the phenomenon itself