Emulation may refer to: *

Emulation (computing) In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the ''host'') to behave like another computer system (called the ''guest''). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peri ...

, imitation of behavior of a computer or other electronic system with the help of another type of system :*

Video game console emulator A video game console emulator is a type of emulator that allows a computing device to emulate a video game console's hardware and play its games on the emulating platform. More often than not, emulators carry additional features that surpass ...

, software which emulates video game consoles *

Gaussian process emulator In statistics, Gaussian process emulator is one name for a general type of statistical model that has been used in contexts where the problem is to make maximum use of the outputs of a complicated (often non-random) computer-based simulation model. ...

, a special case of the Gaussian process in statistics *

Surrogate model A surrogate model is an engineering method used when an outcome of interest cannot be easily measured or computed, so a model of the outcome is used instead. Most engineering design problems require experiments and/or simulations to evaluate design ...

, a model which imitates or emulates a more complicated (usually in terms of computer simulation time) model. * ASC Emulation, a football club in Martinique *

Emulation (observational learning) In emulation learning, subjects learn about parts of their environment and use this to achieve their own goals and is an observational learning mechanism (sometimes called social learning mechanisms). In this context, emulation was first coined by ...

, a theory of comparative psychology *

Emulation Lodge of Improvement Emulation Lodge of Improvement is a Lodge of Instruction which first met on 2 October 1823, and is held under the sanction of Lodge of Unions No. 256 in the English Constitution. It restricts admission to Master Masons in good standing. The aim o ...

, a masonic lodge whose aim is to preserve masonic ritual as closely as is possible to that which was formally accepted *

Socialist emulation Socialist competition or socialist emulation (, "sotsialisticheskoye sorevnovanie", or , "sotssorevnovanie") was a form of competition between state enterprises and between individuals practiced in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern bloc state ...

, a form of competition that was practiced in the Soviet Union *

Whole brain emulation Mind uploading is a speculative process of whole brain emulation in which a brain scan is used to completely emulate the mental state of the individual in a digital computer. The computer would then run a simulation of the brain's information ...

, aiming at mind uploading

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