SIMULATION MODELLING
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of General Systems
- Vol. 1 (3) , 155-163
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03081077408960768
Abstract
Computerised models of the simular variety are presented in terms of their capability to provide systemic scientists, those who seek to author the explication of collections of naturally occurring phenomena, with a methodology for the dissolution of theecologico-environmental, medico-systemic, psycho-neurological, and socio-politico-economic problems that beset and challenge Man. The capability of simulation, among the models of Man, to address the modelling of open or closed systems is indicated. An operational description of the scientific method provides an explicit presentation of the elements of scientific credibility and of human creativity. Simulation methodology is equated isomorphicaily to the cybernetic process which historically has led science and Man to augmented and improved knowledge of Nature and is thereby outlined as the methodology of the systemic scientist.Keywords
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