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NATO Modelling and Simulation - Glossary of Terms Project

The aim of this document is to create a common understanding of M&S terms and where agreement cannot ultimately be reached, to understand variations in definitions. The M&S community is kindly invited to help us improving this living document by using the dedicated feedback form.

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A simulation application running on multiple computers or processors in a coordinated mode
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Is accomplished by presenting a virtual world to users based on their location and orientation and providing synthetic stimuli to one or more of their senses in response to their position and actions.
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See “Immersion”
  
Stochastic Simulation System
A constructive simulation system in which the final results are influenced  by using random variables to represent uncertainty and/or in which a given input will produce an output according to some statistical distribution.
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Contrast with: “Deterministic simulation system” See also: “Monte-Carlo Method”
  
PDU
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) terminology for a unit of data that is passed on a network between Simulation applications.
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