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Modeling involves building a model, either physical or conceptual, that represents a system of interest in a simpler way while approximating its key features. Simulation is the process of using a model to study the behavior of an actual system by manipulating variables that cannot be controlled in real life. This allows evaluating models to optimize systems or make predictions that would be too complex, dangerous, or inaccessible to study otherwise. Simulating uses a model to explore hypothetical states of a system during a simulation.

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Simulation

Modeling involves building a model, either physical or conceptual, that represents a system of interest in a simpler way while approximating its key features. Simulation is the process of using a model to study the behavior of an actual system by manipulating variables that cannot be controlled in real life. This allows evaluating models to optimize systems or make predictions that would be too complex, dangerous, or inaccessible to study otherwise. Simulating uses a model to explore hypothetical states of a system during a simulation.

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Model and a simulation

Modeling & Simulation[1]

A model is a product (physical or digital) that represents a system of interest. A model is


similar to but simpler than the system it represents, while approximating most of the
same salient features of the real system as close as possible. A good model is a judicious
tradeoff between realism and simplicity. A key feature of a model is manipulability. A
model can be a physical model (for example a physical architectural house scale model,
a model aircraft, a fashion mannequin, or a model organism in biology research); or a
conceptual model (for example a computer model, a statistical or mathematical model, a
business model.
Modeling is the act of building a model.

A simulation is the process of using a model to study the behavior and performance of
an actual or theoretical system. In a simulation, models can be used to study existing or
proposed characteristics of a system. The purpose of a simulation is to study the
characteristics of a real-life or fictional system by manipulating variables that cannot be
controlled in a real system. Simulations allow evaluating a model to optimize system
performance or to make predictions about a real system. Simulations are useful to study
properties of a model of a real-life system that would otherwise be too complex, too
large/small, too fast/slow, not accessible, too dangerous or unacceptable to engage.
While a model aims to be true to the system it represents, a simulation can use a model
to explore states that would not be possible in the original system.
Simulating is the act of using a model for a simulation

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