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This paper presents a practical approach to digital pulse processing, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency. We advocate for a balanced software design, flat data structures, the use of the ROOT C++ interpreter, and a combination of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-16 Jing Liu

The concept of a universal algorithm is discussed. Examples of this kind of algorithms are presented. Software implementations of such algorithms in C++ type languages are discussed together with means that provide for computations with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Grigori Litvinov , Elena Maslova

We present a practical course targeting graduate students with prior knowledge of the basics of quantum computing. The practical aims to deepen students' understanding of fundamental concepts in quantum computing by implementing quantum…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-24 Florian Krötz , Xiao-Ting Michelle To , Korbinian Staudacher , Dieter Kranzlmüller

Quantum simulation is a potentially powerful application of quantum computing, holding the promise to be able to emulate interesting quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computing methods. Despite such promising applications, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Kaelyn J. Ferris , A. J. Rasmusson , Nicholas T. Bronn , Olivia Lanes

Simulators are a critical component of modern robotics research. Strategies for both perception and decision making can be studied in simulation first before deployed to real world systems, saving on time and costs. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Bhairav Mehta , Ankur Handa , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos

In order to understand the physics phenomea on the fundamental aspects, the software simulations are a good exercise to succed in this way. Some work of heat transport and molecular physics laboratory are studied in a comparative mode…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Murariu , Dorina Toma

The article deals with the problem of intellectual development of students in learning of physics by means of computer simulation. The main objectives of teaching computer simulation in learning of physics is the general outlook…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-12-04 Yu. V. Yechkalo

A computer code or simulator is a mathematical representation of a physical system, for example a set of differential equations. Running the code with given values of the vector of inputs, x, leads to an output y(x) or several such outputs.…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-25 Derek Bingham , Pritam Ranjan , William Welch

Space-filling designs are crucial for efficient computer experiments, enabling accurate surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification in many scientific and engineering applications, such as digital twin systems and cyber-physical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-06 Xinwei Deng , Lulu Kang , C. Devon Lin

Scenarios are pen-pictures of plausible futures, used for strategic planning. The aim of this investigation is to expand the horizon of scenario-based planning through computational models that are able to aid the analyst in the planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-06 Hussein Abbass , Axel Bender , Helen Dam , Stephen Baker , James M Whitacre , Ruhul Sarker

This paper has a practical aim. For a long time, implementations of pseudorandom number generators in standard libraries of programming languages had poor quality. The situation started to improve only recently. Up to now, a large number of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Migran N. Gevorkyan , Dmitry S. Kulyabov , Anastasia V. Demidova , Anna V. Korolkova

Simulation offers a simple and flexible way to estimate the power of a clinical trial when analytic formulae are not available. The computational burden of using simulation has, however, restricted its application to only the simplest of…

Quantum computing is getting increasing interest from both academia and industry, and the quantum software landscape has been growing rapidly. The quantum software stack comprises quantum programs, implementing algorithms, and platforms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Matteo Paltenghi , Michael Pradel

Quantum computing systems depend on the principles of quantum mechanics to perform multiple challenging tasks more efficiently than their classical counterparts. In classical software engineering, the software life cycle is used to document…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Thong Hoang , Hoa Khanh Dam , Tingting Bi , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , Liming Zhu , Lam Duc Nguyen , Shiping Chen

Simulations inform all aspects of modern astrophysical research, ranging in scale from 1D and 2D test problems that can run in seconds on an astronomer's laptop all the way to large-scale 3D calculations that run on the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nathan J Goldbaum

Simulations are valuable tools for empirically evaluating the properties of statistical methods and are primarily employed in methodological research to draw general conclusions about methods. In addition, they can often be useful to…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-10-08 Anne-Laure Boulesteix , Patrick Callahan , Luzia Hanssum , Vincent Gaertner , Eva Hoster

A large multitude of scientific computing tools is available today. This article gives an overview of available tools and explains the main application fields. In addition basic principles of number representations in computing and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 A. Latina

A substantial fraction of the time that computational modellers dedicate to developing their models is actually spent trouble-shooting and debugging their code. However, how this process unfolds is seldom spoken about, maybe because it is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Ester Comellas , Jean-Paul Pelteret , Wolfgang Bangerth

An approach for incorporating embedded simulation and analysis capabilities in complex simulation codes through template-based generic programming is presented. This approach relies on templating and operator overloading within the C++…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Roger P. Pawlowski , Eric T. Phipps , Andrew G. Salinger

Introduction of the Scrum approach into software engineering has changed the way software is being developed. The Scrum approach emphasizes the active end-user involvement, embracing of change, and /iterative delivery of products. Our study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Peter Kokol. Sašo Zagoranski , Marko Kokol