Adequate Modeling of Systems

List of Contents.- Introduction:.- Innovative Conceptual Perspectives for Adequately Modeling Complex Real Systems.- Problem Study 1.- Realism in Hierarchical Modeling: A Fuzzy Systems Approach.- A Logical Approach to Simulation (TS - PROLOG).- Modeling and Simulating Nets of Agencies with BORIS.- A Systems Specification Language.- An Exercise in Achieving Goals in Distributed Systems by Means of Interaction Systems.- Problem Study 2.- Eliciting the Real Problem.- A Group Process Approach to Organizational Change.- The Problem of Model Adequacy Exemplified Using General Nets to Describe a Citizens' Services Department.- Real System Modeling: A Formal but Realistic Approach to Organizational Design.- A High Level Net Language for Stepwise Modeling Organizational Systems.- Some Mathematical Methods for Modeling the Performance of a Distributed Data Base System.- T3SD as a Modeling Methodology.- Problem Study 3.- Quality Assurance of System Design and Model Management for Complex Problems.- Reversal Simulation with Place - Transactor Nets.- Conditions for Living Together of Social Groups.- A Balanced System of Social Groups in a New Suburb: How These Requirements Reflect on a Philosophy of Realistic Model-Building Architecture.- System for Interactive Modeling of Socio-Economic Development.- Real Structure Modeling: Towards a Valid Approach for Social Systems Analysis.- The Use of Structured Design Methodology to Improve Realism in National Economic Planning.- A Preliminary Framework for Urban Model-Building.- Authors' Index.