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The first three chapters provide the fundamental introductory material for this book. In this chapter, we turn to Theme B to start exploring what systems science can do for us. Theme B concentrates mainly on modeling and, for our purposes, the role that it plays mainly in the natural sciences. Modeling is about “system identification.” Diagrams are a powerful qualitative approach to modeling and mark our first real look at the practical worth of systems ideas.
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Flood, R.L., Carson, E.R. (1993). Systems and Modeling. In: Dealing with Complexity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2235-2_4
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