Theory of Modelling and Simulation
Theory of Modelling and Simulation
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Integrative modelling is a concept which suggests that the modelling and simulation enterprise can best be advanced within a framework which provides a strong theory and software domain for dealing with many models at many levels of specification and application at once. This approach to modelling is important for several reasons; first, and perhaps most important, the appraoch will provide for a more cumulative development of the modelling and simulation enterprise, and thus indirectly more cumulative development of the ultimately desired knowledge and understanding of large-scale complex systems. Secondly, once the required computer software is designed and implemented, the system of integrated models should enable the development of additional related models for a lower total "cost" in terms of total effort. The lower cost is due to the fact that new models will also be integrated and therefore derived from earlier available ones. Third, this approach, when implemented, will tend to centralize the data and models of a particular large-scale system thus making it more readily available in responding to the needs of public policymaking.