Simulation and Prototype

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.

noun

• A standard or typical example.
  • usage: "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
  • synonyms: paradigm, epitome, image

(n.) An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved or otherwise copied, cast or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.