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Network-Oriented Modeling and Its Conceptual Foundations

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Network-Oriented Modeling

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To address complexity of modeling the world’s processes, over the years in different scientific disciplines isolation and separation assumptions have been made, and in some disciplines they have turned out quite useful. They traditionally serve as a means to address the complexity of processes by some strong form of decomposition. It can be questioned whether such assumptions are adequate to address complexity of integrated human mental and social processes and their interactions. Are there better alternative strategies to address human complexity? This is discussed in this chapter, and it is pointed out that a Network-Oriented Modeling perspective can be considered an alternative way to address complexity, which is better suited for modeling human and social processes.

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