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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1992
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 68f8be4710ef70435fee8d3c8bf4c1f7, and c1647c2958efc6aa1703a2b3e2d5c65f
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- When modeling and simulation in System Dynamics, we can find many different uses of the term “model”. Although these uses are very interrelated among them, and with other uses this term in science, technology and philosophy, they serve to very specific and diverse goals and purposes. This paper tries to sketch a general framework in order to analize that wide variety of uses the term “model” has in System Dynamics. Sometimes, the differences among some of these uses will be so important that more than different uses of a term associated with a single concept, we could speak of different and mutually irreductible concepts. Nevertheless, whether theses uses of the term “model” are associated with a single underlying concept or with different concepts, all of them are perfectly integrated in System Dynamics. Our point is that this is one of the main sources of its great success for making clear our ideas and for managing our actions trought complexity.