MATRIX BUILDER
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 2025 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
A general heuristic tool to be used to discover significant interconnections in the whole systemic field.
This was a L. TRONCALE proposal during the fourth FUSCHL conversations.(1985, p.73). Its present status is unfortunately uncertain.
According to TRONCALE: “This tool would aid a user in identifying key parameters of a problem using general morphology, then use these to built several axes which describe a multidimensional space. Each axis would represent a distinct and separate, but critically important approach to the problem under study. Comparison between the axes would create many multidimensional intersect spaces… Each… would contain information on how the various categories of the various taxonomies of parameters (represented by all axes) interact with each other. In this way, each particular of each taxonomy should be systematically compared with each particular of the other categories and taxonomies. Each connection specified in an intersect would be explained in semantic terms, linked to literature or data, and… would serve as a point of departure for tracing to other connections. This tool would combine features of expert systems, relational data bases, and some unique, new capabilities into a user-oriented tool”.
In synthesis, the matrix builder could become a meta-taxonomic tool.
The present work may somehow be considered as a not-formalized and quite partial version in colloquial English of a matrix builder.