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Computation, the use of a computer to solve, simulate, or visualize a physical problem, has revolutionized how physics research is done. Computation is used widely to model systems, to simulate experiments, and to analyze data. Yet, in most…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-11-18 Marcos D. Caballero

Although simulation represents a major advance in the understanding of problems in complex systems, the field currently does not has standards in place that would guide the reporting of the data underlying each model, the process for model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-26 Elias Carvalho , Luciano Andrade , Ricardo Chaim , Ricardo Pietrobon

The increase of existing computational capabilities has made simulation emerge as a third discipline of Science, lying midway between experimental and purely theoretical branches [1, 2]. Simulation enables the evaluation of quantities which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pablo García-Risueño , Pablo E. Ibáñez

RidePy enables fast computer simulations of on-demand mobility modes such as ridehailing or ridepooling. It strongly focuses on modeling the mobility service itself, rather than its customers or the environment. Through a combination of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-05 Felix Jung , Debsankha Manik

Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Zahra Forootan Jahromi , Amir Rajabzadeh , Ali Reza Manashty

Organizations that develop software have recognized that software process models are particularly useful for maintaining a high standard of quality. In the last decade, simulations of software processes were used in several settings and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Holger Neu , Thomas Hanne , Jürgen Münch , Stefan Nickel , Andreas Wirsen

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is a promising proposal for overcoming the scalability challenges of quantum computing. However, the evaluation of DQC hardware and software is difficult due to the relative dearth of classical simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Kenny Campbell

Simulation can enable the study of recommender system (RS) evolution while circumventing many of the issues of empirical longitudinal studies; simulations are comparatively easier to implement, are highly controlled, and pose no ethical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Amy A. Winecoff , Matthew Sun , Eli Lucherini , Arvind Narayanan

Computer simulations are an essential pillar of knowledge generation in science. Exploring, understanding, reproducing, and sharing the results of simulations relies on tracking and organizing the metadata describing the numerical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 José Villamar , Matthias Kelbling , Heather L. More , Michael Denker , Tom Tetzlaff , Johanna Senk , Stephan Thober

Simulations play important and diverse roles in statistical workflows, for example, in model specification, checking, validation, and even directly in model inference. Over the past decades, the application areas and overall potential of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-27 Paul-Christian Bürkner , Marvin Schmitt , Stefan T. Radev

Most of the space projects or large observatories do have official tools like simulators, end-to-end pipelines developed during years by a large team of contributors. They are like {\em cathedrals}. In this paper, we show that very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 R. Gastaud , A. Coulais

Design of next generation computer systems should be supported by simulation infrastructure that must achieve a few contradictory goals such as fast execution time, high accuracy, and enough flexibility to allow comparison between large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ori Chalak , Cai Weiguang , Li Wei , Fang Lei , Zheng Libing , Wang Jintang , Wu Zuguang , Gu Xiongli , Wang Haibin , Avi Mendelson

Computational models have great potential to accelerate bioscience, bioengineering, and medicine. However, it remains challenging to reproduce and reuse simulations, in part, because the numerous formats and methods for simulating various…

Build-time configuration and environment assumptions are hampering progress and usability in scientific software. That which would be utterly unacceptable in non-scientific software somehow passes for the norm in scientific packages. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jed Brown , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith

Quantum simulators are devices that actively use quantum effects to answer questions about model systems and, through them, real systems. Here we expand on this definition by answering several fundamental questions about the nature and use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 T. H. Johnson , S. R. Clark , D. Jaksch

New information technologies provide a lot of prospects for performance improvement. One of them is "Dynamic Source Code Generation and Compilation". This article shows how this way provides high performance for engineering problems.

Performance · Computer Science 2008-08-25 Petr R. Ivankov

Simulation Optimization (SO) refers to the optimization of an objective function subject to constraints, both of which can be evaluated through a stochastic simulation. To address specific features of a particular simulation---discrete or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Satyajith Amaran , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis , Bikram Sharda , Scott J. Bury

A compilator is a program which is development in a programming language that read a file known as source. After this file have to translate and have to convert in other program known as object or to generate a exit. The best way for to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Jose Texier , Bermudez Manuel

Interactive high-performance computing is doubtlessly beneficial for many computational science and engineering applications whenever simulation results should be visually processed in real time, i.e. during the computation process.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Ralf-Peter Mundani , Jérôme Frisch , Vasco Varduhn , Ernst Rank

This paper presents an open-source, lightweight, yet comprehensive software framework, named RPC, which integrates physics-based simulators, planning and control libraries, debugging tools, and a user-friendly operator interface. RPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seung Hyeon Bang , Carlos Gonzalez , Gabriel Moore , Dong Ho Kang , Mingyo Seo , Luis Sentis