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Systems Interactions and Macrotheory
| CBU number: | 4064 |
| Authors: | BARNARD, P.J., May, J., Duke, D.J. & Duce, D.A. |
| Reference: | Transactions On Computer Human Interaction 7, 222-262 |
| Year of publication: | 2000 |
| Abstract text: | This paper proposes a general four component theoretical framework for modelling the behaviour of complex systems. The approach is illustrated here for modelling the behaviour of a modular mental architecture (Interacting Cognitive Subsystems), for indiviudals interacting with everyday artifacts, and for interactions in groups and larger organisations. Within the framework principles concerning the behaviour of any class of generic "interactor" (anything that interacts in a system), is in principle mathematically formalisable using recent "formal methods" developed in computer science.Such formalisations can be used to "prove" that a claim follows from a theoretical formulation without requiring a running simulation. |
| First CBU author: | Barnard, P.J. |
| Annual report number: | CBUAR 45 |
| Keywords: | Systems theory, modelling methods, Interacting Cognitive sSubsystems |

