Ploy and Simulation

noun

• An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
  • synonyms: gambit
• A maneuver in a game or conversation.
  • synonyms: gambit, stratagem

• (v.i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
• (n.) Sport; frolic.

noun

• The act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training. )
• Computer science. ( the technique of representing the real world by a computer program)
  • usage: "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"
  • synonyms: computer simulation
• Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: model
• The act of giving a false appearance.
  • usage: "his conformity was only pretending"
  • synonyms: pretense, pretence, pretending, feigning

(n.) The act of simulating or assuming an appearance which is feigned or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

Simulation is the use of a mathematical model to imitate a situation many times in order to estimate the likelihood of various possible outcomes. See: Monte Carlo simulation.