Hands-On Simulation Modeling with Python

Chapter 1: Introducing Simulation Models

A simulation model is a tool capable of processing information and data and predicting the responses of a real system to certain inputs, thus becoming an effective support for analysis, performance evaluation, and decision-making processes. The term simulation refers to reproducing the behavior of a system. In general, we speak of simulation both in the case in which a concrete model is used and in the case in which an abstract model is used that reproduces reality using a computer. An example of a concrete model is a scale model of an airplane that is then placed in a wind tunnel to carry out simulated tests to estimate suitable performance measures.

Although, over the years, physicists have developed ...