MODELIZATION: Analytic or systemic
Charles François (2004). MODELIZATION: Analytic or systemic, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2172.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2172 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
J.L.LE MOIGNE propose the following comparison between the analytic (i.e., applying a reductionnist method of successive decomposition) and the systemic (i.e. using a wholesale approach) modes of modelization (1990, p.9):see table next page
One wonders if the systemic way to “control” is not regulation or still better self-regulation.
Pleasantly, LE MOIGNE argues that cutting a sausage in regular slices can be satisfactory, but that the same method applied to a chicken would not give good results.
D. DURAND describes as follows the succesive stages of modelization in systemic terms:
- “- Identification and classification of the elements of the system (in order to distinguish) the elements in a number of classes… taking in account (their) dynamic as well as static properties … and establishing a certain hierarchy among them.
- “- Defining the relations among the elements… This is usually done by establishing a matrix… which moreover allows to define the direction of the relations from one element to another.
- “- Generalization which is the extension to the most numerous possible situations, of a model which has been found valid in a number of observed situations.
- “- Induction, a more ambitious operation… which aims at the replacement of one or various given models by one more abstract and more universal one” (1979, p.58).