Complex Systems Modeling and International Development

Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Brunner ◽  
Peter Allen
1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (13) ◽  
pp. 790-793
Author(s):  
Bruce Kaplan ◽  
Mike Mecherikoff ◽  
Harold Blackman

Each discipline tends to use analytic tools that lead them to solutions within their own discipline, and steer them away from others. Within a discipline, we tend to pose solutions that align with our areas of interest or expertise. Clients can be guided into work which may not be the best solution to their particular set of problems or needs.


Author(s):  
Gerardo L. Febres

This work presents some characteristics of MoNet, a computerized platform for the modeling and visualization of complex systems. Emphasis is on the ideas that allowed the successful progressive development of this modeling platform, which goes along with the implementation of applications to the modeling of several studied systems. The platform has the capacity to represent different aspects of systems modeled at different observation scales. This tool offers advantages in the sense of favoring the perception of the phenomenon of the emergence of information, associated with changes of scale. Some criteria used for the construction of this modeling platform are included. The power of current computers has made practical representing graphic resources such as shapes, line thickness, overlaying-text tags, colors and transparencies, in the graphical modeling of systems made up of many elements. By visualizing diagrams conveniently designed to highlight contrasts, these modeling platforms allow the recognition of patterns that drive our understanding of systems and their structure. Graphs that reflect the benefits of the tool regarding the visualization of systems at different scales of observation are presented to illustrate the application of the platform.


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