Modeling and Simulation CS-6304 exam answers

A behavioral model that is distinct and the have the same state variable

Unhandled Implication
Stochastic Forms
Heterogeneous Agent Model Correct
Ideal Model to Implication

A behaviour type that has an adaptive refinement for finer localized representation

Mesh Cell Correct
Semantic Graph
Trail
Continuum Field Equations

A circuit that interconnects two or more bus segments in a bus-based system

Networking
Real-time Streams
Reliable Delivery
Repeater Correct

A class of communication that provides references to resources, analogous to links in the World Wide Web

Network Pointer Correct
Datagram
Heavy Weight Objects
Flow Specification

A collection of dynamical models, and which one to use is selected by the state of the FSM

Real World to Ideal World Model
Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS) Correct
Interpreting Error Implications
Time-driven Simulation

A communication service that sends a copy of a specific message to more than one but not necessarily all destinations

LAN
Real-time Streams
International Standards Organization (ISO)
Multicast Correct

A computation that models the behavior of some real or imagined system over time

Training Environment
Local Causality Constraint
Heterogeneity
Computer Simulation Correct

A discrete-event simulation consisting of logical processes (LPs) that interact exclusively by exchanging time stamped messages

Heterogeneity
Training Environment
Computer Simulation
Local Causality Constraint Correct

A distributed computer's characteristic that is important because many distributed simulators are constructed by interconnecting existing sequential simulators operating on specific workstations

Heterogeneity Correct
Local Causality Constraint
Computer Simulation
Training Environment

A graph that has at least one pair of nodes with no undirected path between them

Degree of Nodes
Agent Based Model
Subgraph
Undirected Graph Correct

A group formed by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) in early 1995

Interface Specification
Architecture Management Group (AMG) Correct
Detonation
HLA rules

A high-level architecture mechanism where abstractions are defined separately from objects and attributes, solely for the purpose of data distribution

Network Pointer
Group Communication
Routing Spaces Correct
Resource Reservation

A layer that provides an end-to-end communication service between hosts, hiding details of the underlying network

Network Pointer
Transport Layer Correct
Application Layer
Real-time Streams

A path in which all contained links are directed from the start node, in succession, to the end node, and is also known as a route between the two nodes

Hyperlink
Path
Directed Path Correct
Link

A PDU that indicates the trajectory of a munition has been completed

Entity State PDU
Detonation Correct
Interface Specification
HLA rules

A potentially far-reaching impact of distributed virtual environments creating new means for people to interact socially on the Internet

Butterfly Barrier
Parellel Simulation/Distributed Simulation
Social Interaction/Business Collaborations Correct
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)

A subset of the nodes in a parent graph, and includes only links from the parent graph that are between nodes in the subgraph

Agent Based Model
Subgraph Correct
Undirected Graph
Degree of Nodes

A technique in Distributed Interactive Simulation that is used to reduce interprocessor communication

Entity State PDU
Distribution server architecture
Sufficiently Realistic
Dead Reckoning Correct

A term referred to as distributed simulation in high level architecture

Federation Correct
Sufficiently Realistic
Detonation
Object Class

A trail segment that is a path except that it starts and ends on the same node

State Variable Calculations
Tuple
Loop Correct
Hypernode

A type of distributed simulation technology can be applied in amusement park and arcade centers where players are co-located but interact with each other and computer-generated entities over a local area network

Entertainment Application Correct
Transportation
Transient Message
Diffusing Computation

A type of error where results are mere misinterpretations

Ideal Model to Implication
Unhandled Implication Correct
Stochastic Forms
Heterogeneous Agent Model

A type of modeling where data is represented by measurable quantities, as voltages or, formerly, the rotation of gears, in order to solve a problem, rather than by expressing the data as numbers

Time-driven Simulation
Continuous Model Correct
Real World to Ideal World Model
Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS)

An approach that eliminates the broadcast to notify the processors that a global synchronization has been achieved

Training Environment
Deadlock
Transient Message
Butterfly Barrier Correct

An architecture where computation-only entities may now be distributed among geographically distributed processors

Federation
Sufficiently Realistic
Distributed-serverless architecture Correct
Detonation

An area or field in computer science that plays a critical role in distributed simulation systems

Reliable Delivery
Networking Correct
Repeater
Real-time Streams

An association of one node to another as a pair of references

Directed Path
Hyperlink
Links Correct
Path

An error that comes when numerical calculations are generated to approximate math function

Propagating a Distribution Error
Bounded Error
Machine Error
Computational Error Correct

An HLA category that includes services to create and delete federation executions

Federation Management Correct
Entity State PDU
Data Type
Detonation

An HLA component that defines the underling principle used in the HLA

Object Model Template (OMT)
Dead Reckoning
HLA rules Correct
Federation

An inaccurate representation of real and ideal world in terms of algorithms analysis

Algorithm Sources of Erros Correct
Stochastic Forms
Controllable Erros
Interpreting Eror Implications

Any sequence of links and their shared nodes which can be traced from one node to another visiting each included link only once

Semantic Graph
Trail Correct
Mesh Cell
Continuum Field Equations

Any sequence of links and their shared nodes which can be traced from one node to another visiting each included node only once

Walk Correct
Bipartite Graph
Mesh Cell
Dynamical Simulation

Are highly dependent on the distribution and the calculations being performed

Bounded Errors
Sources of Erros
Propagating a Distribution Error Correct
Unhandled Implication

Calculations having temporary variables that may or may not be considered state variables

State Variable Calculations Correct
Loop
Hypernode
Tuple

Can be propagated through nonlinear calculations

Sources of Erros
Propagating a Distribution Error
Unhandled Implication
Bounded Errors Correct

Characterized as evenly propagated point source radiated energy

Undirected Graph
Continuum Field Equations Correct
Hypernode
Semantic Graph

Contain ground truth information indicating the appearance and location of an entity

Sufficiently Realistic
Dead Reckoning
Distribution server architecture
Entity State PDU Correct

Defines the services provided by the Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI) for linking together individual federates

Sufficiently Realistic
Distribution Interactiv Simulation (DIS)
Dead Reckoning
Interface Specification Correct

Indicates the federate is to receive all updates for objects of a certain class, such as the altitude attribute of all aircraft objects

Distributed-serverless architecture
Subscribe Object Class Attribute Correct
Sufficiently Realistic
Object Class

Is a graph whose links indicate various association types between the nodes

Hypernode
Continuum Field Equations
Undirected Graph
Semantic Graph Correct

Is a graph whose nodes form two distinct sets and whose links start in one of those sets and end in the other

Mesh Cell
Bipartite Graph Correct
Dynamical Simulation
Walk

Is a mathematical model of computation used to design both computer programs and sequential logic circuits

Agent Based Model (ABM)
Degree of Nodes
Finite State Automation or State Machine Correct
Semantic Graph

Is a node that represents a subgraph and all the links between the nodes in the subgraph

Tuple
Hypernode Correct
Loop
State Variable Calculations

Is any link that is between a hypernode and any node external to the subgraph it includes

Directed Path
Hyperlink Correct
Path
Links

It is the number of links into and out of the node

Degree of Nodes Correct
Undirected Graph
Subgraph
Agent Based Model

It is the other term for the pairing of two or more nodes

Tuple Correct
Hypernode
State Variable Calculations
Loop

It is the simulation of systems of objects that are free to move, usually in three dimensions according to Newton's laws of dynamics, or approximations thereof

Bipartite Graph
Mesh Cell
Walk
Dynamical Simulation Correct

It provides the language by which the simulator specifies what information it is interested in receiving

Routing Spaces
Flow Specification
Group Communication
Interest Expression Correct

It refers to technologies that enable a simulation program to execute on a computing system containing multiple processors, such as personal computers, interconnected by a communication network

War Gaming Simulations/Aggregated Simulations
Analytic Simulation
Parellel Simulation/Distributed Simulation Correct
Computer Simulation

It refers to the interpretation of error implied or resulting outcomes

Heterogeneous Agent Model
Stochastic Forms
Sources of Erros
Interpreting Error Implications Correct

It simplifies integration of existing simulators into a DVE, and it simplifies allowing simulators to join or leave the exercise while it is in progress

Object Model Template (OMT)
Autonomous Simulation Nodes Correct
Subscribe Object Class Architecture
Interface Specification

Its principal objective is to enable interoperability among separately developed simulators

Distributed Interactive Simulation Correct
Data Distribution Management
Data Type
Federation

Literally known error that is not seen as an error and usually the worst-case scenarios

Machine Error Correct
Algorithm Errors
Sources of Errors
Controllable Errors

One of a class of computational models for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole

Undirected Graph
Degree of Nodes
Subgraph
Agent Based Model Correct

Refers to being able to understand sources and behaviour of errors which empowers you to control them and predict their effects on the results

Algorithm Errors
Machine Error
Controllable Errors Correct
Sources of Errors

Refers to characterizing randomness in behaviors of otherwise deterministic models

Heterogeneous Agent Model
Unhandled Implication
Ideal Model to Implication
Stochastic Forms Correct

Results might even be worse implementation model values

Measurement Error Characteristic
Ideal Model to Implementation Correct
Machine Error
Unhandled Implication

Spacing determines "range" for each measurement point

Controllable Errors
Stochatic Forms
Measurement Error Characteristic Correct
Ideal Model to Implication

Specifies a common format for describing the information of common interest to the simulations in the federation

Data Type
Autonomous Simulation Nodes
Subscribe Object Class Attribute
Object Model Template (OMT) Correct

The central characteristic of these machines is that all processors must execute the same instruction (but using different data) at any instant in the program's execution

SIMD/Single-Intruction-Stream, Multiple-Data-Stream Correct
War Gaming Simulations/Aggregated Simulations
Cyclic Dependency
Computer Simulation

The condition where transaction A cannot complete until transaction B completes, but transaction B is blocked by transaction A

Barrier
Transportation
Diffusing Computation
Cyclic Dependency Correct

The mechanisms which handles conservative synchronization algorithms which utilizes the approach of cycling between phases

Deadlock
Barrier Synchronization Correct
Butterfly Barrier
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)

The model of which statistical estimates are only "best fit" to observed measurements

Real World to Ideal World Model Correct
Time-driven Simulation
Continuous Model
Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS)

The most widely known approach in simulation of natural systems

Time-driven Simulation Correct
Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS)
Real World to Ideal World Model
Continuous Model

The point or place from which the condition of deviating from accuracy or correctness

Sources of Errors Correct
Machine Error
Controllable Errors
Algorithm Errors

The simulation is initialized to zero and the times of occurrence of future events are determined

Hybrid Dynamical System (HDS)
Real World to Ideal World Model
Continuous Model
Event-driven Simulation Correct

These algorithms determine which packet is transmitted over each communication link next

Network Pointer
Message Ordering
Packet Scheduling Correct
Transport Layer

These are important for moderate to large DVEs, especially in geographically distributed systems where broadcast communication facilities are not readily available

Group Communication Correct
Network Pointer
Resource Reservation
Routing Spaces

These are services that enable the transfer of ownership of object attributes during the federation execution

Autonomous Simulation Nodes
Federation
Interface Specification
Ownership Management Correct

These are simulations that are often used to evaluate different strategies for attacking or defending against an opposing force, or for acquisition decisions to determine the number and type of weapon systems that should be purchased to be prepared for future engagement

Computer Simulation
Analytic Simulation
Parellel Simulation/Distributed Simulation
War Gaming Simulations/Aggregated Simulations Correct

These are simulations that embed pilots, tank operators, commanding officers and their staffs, and the like, into an environment to train personnel for actual combat

Local Causality Constraint
Training Environment Correct
Heterogeneity
Computer Simulation

These have been used in the telecommunications industry for long to evaluate networking hardware, software, protocols, and services

Computer Simulation
Analytic Simulation Correct
War Gaming Simulations/Aggregated Simulations
Parellel Simulation/Distributed Simulation

These machines are typically constructed by providing memory with each processor but allow each processor to directly read or write the memory attached to another processor

Communications Controller
Deadlock
Local Causality Constraint
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Correct

These protocols provide a means to reserve resources in the network such as bandwidth and message buffers for traffic produced by the application

Repeater
Datagram
Resource Reservation Correct
Packet Scheduling

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