ITM 207 Study Guide - Final Guide: Discrete Event Simulation, List Of Common Shading Algorithms, Partial Differential Equation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 207
• Professor: Jim Tam

Document Summary

Simulation - a model of a complex system and the experimental manipulation of the model to observe the results. Systems that are best suited to being simulated are dynamic, interactive, and complicated. Expresses changes in terms of a set of differential equations that reflect the relationships among the set of characteristics. Made up of entities, attributes, and events. Entity the representation of some object in the real system that must be explicitly defined. Attribute some characteristic of a particular entity. It is a representation of the objects within the system and the rules that govern the interactions of the objects. Queuing system- discrete-event model made up of servers and queued objects using random numbers to represent the arrival and duration of events. Number of events and how they affect the system. Meteorological models-models based on the time-dependent partial differential equations of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Computer models are aids for weather casters used to create predictions of the future.