\subsection{Naming conventions}

\textbf{Fortran}: Refers to the fortran programming language, version 90/95 specifically. \textbf{fortran} refers to the whole Fortran family, and \textbf{FORTRAN} refers to FORTRAN/77 specifically.

\textbf{Proposal}: A new value cancidate obtained from the proposal distribution.

\textbf{Frequency function} is used to refer to a frequency function or a density function when it is irrelevant which one there really is, that is, when it's irrelevant whether the distribution is discrete or continuous.

\textbf{Variable} is used to refer a variable or a parameter when it's irrelevant which one there really is.

\textbf{Generator}: Used to refer to the modules of the software that write out the specific executable Program that carries out the simulation for a given simulation model.

\textbf{Program}: The program that is run to simulate the problem model. Synonym: generated program.

\textbf{Entity}: A data structure of the Generator representing a repetitive structure (indexing structure) of variables. For example $alpha_i$, $x_i$ both are part of the Entity indexed with $i$.

\textbf{Variable group}: All variables of a group, that is $alpha_i$ for all $i$.

\textbf{Parser}: The ComputationalModelParser class used for reading the input files for the Generator.

