Introduction Modeling Complex Dynamic Systems in Chemistry, Ecology, and Society. All rights reserved. Interesting situations for which change is of major importance are called dynamic systems.
All human knowledge is mediated by metaphor and simile.
This is quite clear in humanistic areas. Similarly, the Congressional Budget Office has an elaborate computer model of the United States economy that it uses to estimate the expenses and revenues of the government, leading to a projections of the budget deficit for the next several years. The making and interpretation of models is an important part of the activities of persons interested in environmental questions, and of those concerned with international affairs. This activity is one of the main functions of contemporary science. The relatively recent dramatic increase in the power and availability of digital computers has had an immense impact on the use of models in science, and in the wider culture.