Wiktionary
n. (context software engineering English) a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system.
Usage examples of "computer model".
If our study of memory must reject the computer model and metaphor in favour of the biological and 'real', we must equally recognize that the very nature and mechanisms of memory are being transformed by the technology whose explanatory power we are rejecting.
When you first evolve a new creature by artificial selection in the computer model, it feels like a creative process.
Time was blurring along in the computer model, but his first one-year snapshot was thirty seconds in the future.
Autoverse physics-the internal logic of the self-contained computer model-then how could she, outside the model, interact with it at all?
Everything weve done in the sims has been a computer model, one which posits that you have certain capabilities but doesnt prove you actually do.
Internal body temperature was one--a computer model allowed for environmental conditions, and while the data would be far less reliable than either senior official would want, anything prior to 9:46 P.