Talk:Simulation
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I don't know exactly how this should be dealt with, but there should be either a disambiguation page, it should describe it on this page, or there should be another article page on the subject of surrealist simulation (as practiced in Breton and Eluard's The Immaculate Conception). --Daniel C. Boyer 18:50, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I am planning to merge the articles simulate and simulator be with the current article, simulation, which has the most links, and is the primary concept. --Lexor 14:58, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Reading the simulation article I get the impression that different authors have very diverse definitions of simulation. This is logical as simulation is a very wide field ranging from real world simulations (such as emergency excercises) to computer based human in the loop simulations (e.g. flight simulation), and from business process simulations to computer gaming.
I do not exactly see how, but it would be nice if this article is more structured maybe referring to more specific articles about different types of simulation (real life simulations, computer simulations, hybrid ...) and, or different aspects of simulation (e.g. simulator, simulation experiment, simulation formalisms). --Roy 15:52, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- It is a problem and yes, the article did have several different authors - you should have seen the article before I did a reorganization about 6-8 months ago, it was all over the place, in fact there were about 3 articles that covered simulation, but no overarching structure and much duplication. I did (back then) attempt to do what you have suggested, with three main sections with prominent links to subarticles via the Main article: mechanism:
- The breakdown currently is:
- physical/interactive simulation (corresponding to your "real life" simulations)
- flight simulator (Main article)
- training simulation (no article as yet)
- engineering simulation (e.g. load tests, no article as yet)
- computer simulation (Main article)
- simulation in computer science (no main article as yet) - this is supposed to cover formalistic aspects of simulation as you suggest
- physical/interactive simulation (corresponding to your "real life" simulations)
