A CONCEPTUAL BASIS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATIONT†
International Journal of General SystemsPublished 1 January 1974
Bernard P. Zeigler
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Two common modes of knowledge acquisition, the “discovery” and the "postulational” approaches are analyzed within the proposed framework.
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A conceptual framework for modelling and simulation is proposed. It is based upon a hierarchy of system level descriptions in which higher level descriptions are inferred from lower level ones with the help of a priori assumptions. Two common modes of knowledge acquisition, the “discovery” and the “postulational” approaches are analyzed within the proposed framework.
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