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Any system in the real world—a natural system—is characterized by an immense number of different properties. Some of these properties, e.g., radioactivity, cannot even be perceived with human sense organs. The cognitive apparatus of humans cannot handle the totality of all these properties. This is the reason why humans construct models of natural systems that focus on only those properties that are relevant for a given purpose and forget about the rest.
“Modeling is the art of simplification and abstraction , taking only “so much” from reality to answer the question put forth at the right abstraction level.”
—Saurabh Mittal, Saikou Diallo, Andreas Tolk
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Kopetz, H. (2019). Modeling. In: Simplicity is Complex. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20411-2_4
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