relation: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13686/
title: On the theory of models and the modelling of natural phenomena.
creator: Casti, J.
description: 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.
publisher: Gower
contributor: Bahrenberg, G.
contributor: Fischer, M.
contributor: Nijkamp, P.
date: 1984-09
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Casti, J. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/1179.html>  (1984).  On the theory of models and the modelling of natural phenomena.    In:  On the theory of models and the modelling of natural phenomena. Eds. Bahrenberg, G., Fischer, M., & Nijkamp, P. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2236.html>, pp. 73-92 Gower.  ISBN 978-0566006852