@incollection{iiasa13686,
       booktitle = {On the theory of models and the modelling of natural phenomena.},
          editor = {G. Bahrenberg and M. Fischer and P. Nijkamp},
           month = {September},
           title = {On the theory of models and the modelling of natural phenomena.},
       publisher = {Gower},
            year = {1984},
           pages = {73--92},
             url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13686/},
            isbn = {978-0566006852},
        abstract = {It is argued that a modelling relation in an encoding of a set of physical observables, characterising a natural system N, into an appropriate formal mathematical structure. The theorems of the formal structure are then decoded into true statements about N. Various system-theoretic concepts such as bifurcation, similarity, system analogy, reductionism, and complexity are then seen to be naturally expressed.},
          author = {Casti, J.}
}