Aggregation and Behavior
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:13 pm
Posted by Francisco Perez <francisco77pp@yahoo.com>
HI All,
I was wondering if any of you have ever questioned the risking of SD modeling when aggregating in order to model the macro system and not to dive into much detail. If Chaos theory is correct, than specific events, as minimal and detail-world they might seem, could generate /influence macro behaviors of higher level systems. I wonder if when we model and aggregate subsystems we may be missing something important, so important that that missing thing could lead to a totally different beheviour if encluded/excluded from the model.
Examples of this are triggering events, unstable or potentially unstable parts of subsystems, domino effects, etc.
Sorry if the Query is somewhat vague, but the previous topic on Emergence and some reflections that I've been carrying in my mind about the capability of ST&SD to aggregate and still preserve real system behavior.
Regards
Francisco
Posted by Francisco Perez <francisco77pp@yahoo.com>
posting date Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:18:41 -0800 (PST)
HI All,
I was wondering if any of you have ever questioned the risking of SD modeling when aggregating in order to model the macro system and not to dive into much detail. If Chaos theory is correct, than specific events, as minimal and detail-world they might seem, could generate /influence macro behaviors of higher level systems. I wonder if when we model and aggregate subsystems we may be missing something important, so important that that missing thing could lead to a totally different beheviour if encluded/excluded from the model.
Examples of this are triggering events, unstable or potentially unstable parts of subsystems, domino effects, etc.
Sorry if the Query is somewhat vague, but the previous topic on Emergence and some reflections that I've been carrying in my mind about the capability of ST&SD to aggregate and still preserve real system behavior.
Regards
Francisco
Posted by Francisco Perez <francisco77pp@yahoo.com>
posting date Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:18:41 -0800 (PST)