Questions tagged [simulation]
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Multi-user time based simulation - deploying new version without downtime
I am making a multiplayer strategy simulation game. The game runs in turns of fixed duration, e.g. 1 minute.
For every user, there is a set of state variables that can change every turn, e.g. amount ...
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How to handle variables for simulation? One, or multiple class, or maps?
I am trying to write a simulation that has multiple (20+) variables, which the user should be able to control without modifying the source code. Currently I'm stuck between two design choices: Should ...
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How to pass simulation information to a simulated device that uses a generic interface?
Currently, I am developing a software in C# (.NET 6) that tests devices after production. Therefore, it runs specific tests, e.g., voltage measurements, using the connected hardware. If the voltages ...
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Best way to implement traffic light/intersection in 2D tile-based traffic simulation
I've been building a traffic simulation with C++ following the Intelligent Driver Model from this article: https://towardsdatascience.com/simulating-traffic-flow-in-python-ee1eab4dd20f
To sum up my ...
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physical simulation: design thoughts
I'm an applied physics student and currently working on a simulation of the magnetic interactions of multiple protons within a protein.
Me having only little experience with programming and almost ...
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Design of A Multithreaded Simulator
When designing my simulator, I have gotten stuck on 2 main design choices.
The simulator can be described as having X number of nodes (between 50 - 2000) that each need to independently do some ...
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Should I "modularize" my configuration file into different files?
I have a simulation in Python which reads its configuration from a toml file. Since I have tons of parameters, the toml file can grow quite large.
This is an example file, similar in structure to my ...
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Writing a growing simulation that scales
Or ways to get better run time than a nested loop?
How would you design this?
I hope this is the place to ask semi-vague software engineering questions.
My simple simulation is like this:
There is a ...
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Can the results of a Discrete-Event Simulation be translated to a Continuous-Time visualization?
I am composing a library for Discrete-Event Simulation of vehicle traffic. Vehicles are modelled as agents, while the network is modelled as a set of interconnected edges and nodes (a bidirectional ...
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How to implement a rule-based decision maker for an agent-based model?
I have a hard time understanding how to combine a rule-based decision making approach for an agent in an agent-based model I try to develop.
The interface of the agent is a very simple one.
public ...
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Pros and cons of position as properties of a spatial object?
Building games and simulation frameworks, it seems I am regularly hounded by this conundrum:
Let's say you have a 2D grid, and you have an crate in that grid. I can put the coordinates on the crate, ...
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Birthday Paradox, Analytical and Monte Carlo solutions give two systemically slightly different results [closed]
I was doing a Monte Carlo implementation of the Birthday Paradox in Python and I wanted to check if the results where the same as in the analytical implementation of the same problem (As they should ...
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Best practices for testing settings file with many parameters in simulation code
I'm conflicted as to what is the best way to approach this problem.
I am writing a simulation in Python, which is parametrized by ~ 50 parameters. I have a JSON file where these parameters are set, ...
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Is there a way to speed up a big switch statement?
As a practice I'm working on a CPU simulator (runs at about 1.78MHz) and I'm using a switch statement to execute correct opcodes based on the value in the IR (instruction register) variable. This ...
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The optimal way to simulate vision detection from limited visual field
I need to build an experiment based on a scientific paper in which a high number of agents have a divided visual field (with limited detection distance) and have to detect other agents in a 2D ...
