ITM 207 Chapter Notes - Chapter Final: Modelling Biological Systems, Collision Detection, Applied Mathematics
18 Apr 2013
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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. It is a representation of the objects within the system and the rules that govern the interactions of the objects. Expresses changes in terms of a set of different 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, event: an interaction between entities. A discrete-event model that uses random numbers to represent the arrival and duration of events. This system is made up of: servers, queues of objects to be served. To construct a queuing model, we must know: The number of events and how they affect the system in order to determine the rules of entity interaction.
