Module Models and Modelling: 6. Elements of models Part II

This chapter of the model journey explains which elements we typically use for model development and model deployment. Models are instruments in scenarios where they should properly function. The modelbeing of such instruments can be explicitly determined on the basis of compliance criteria. These criteria, especially for adequacy and dependability, can be used for the solution of the demarcation problem, i. e. to decide what is a model, what not yet, and which not at all. Model specification is based on a number of frameworks such as WH specification, handling of parameter spaces, Chomsky s government and binding approach to genericity, approaches for error handling, synergetics, composition theories, and concurrent living in a variety of models. Typical models occurring in this variety are informative models and visualisation models. Models are thus forming the third dimension of science.