| Simile techniques | Any Simile-specific technique |
| Single-species population dynamics | The dynamics of a single population |
| Soil water dynamics | Changes in the amount of water in soil |
| Spatial modelling | Modelling a landscape in terms of multiple individual parcels of land: e.g. polygon patches, grid cells |
| Spatial organization | |
| Stochastic modelling | Modelling that includes some element of randomness, which therefore produces different results for each run |
| Submodel | Part of a Simile model diagram which is enclosed by a boundary and treated as a distinct unit. Submodels can have many properties, such as multiple instances within their parent model, a different time step, or even their own separate executable code. |
| System Dynamics | The standard term for compartment-flow (or stock-flow) modelling |