CoSMo Methodology

... a HOWTO guide to CoSMo

The HOWTO guide document is a possible illustration of the process of modelling a system with the complex system approach as proposed by the CoSMo platform. It scenarizes the typical activity of a domain modeler. In order to illustrate this modelling process we consider our input is a description of a biological phenomenom previously constituted by a domain expert. Starting from this document we shall decompose the different modelling stages that the domain modeler could possibly go through in order to formalise a first coarse conceptual model.

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Introduction
- Building blocks: entities
- Rules are local
- Neighbouring entities: "local" interaction
- No pushing to neighbours

Starting point: description of a phenomenom
Getting the first picture: a modelling first pass
- Entities: the model building blocks
  - Combing for nouns: a first list potential entities
- Abstracting instances and catogies
- Relationships between entities
  - Compounding (containment/grouping): a first entity relationship
  - Interaction: a second entity relationship
  - Interaction versus compounding: a relationship between relationships

Focusing on the details: a modelling second pass
- Precise definition of an entity
  - Particle or quantity ? Micro vs macro ?
  - An entity attributes: encoding the state

Common modeling pitfalls

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