On the Methodology of Societal-Economic Systems Engineering

Abstract In this Paper, the importance of societal-economic systems study as well as the inefficiency of the existed methodology in studying such systems has been explained., The incompleteness of present mathematical tools and the lack of quantitative expression of specific disciplines involved in societal-economic systems make it a difficulty to describe the societal-economic systems quantitatively. Methods combining qualitative and quantitative description by using man-machine system may be one of the effective methods to tackle the societal-economic systems. Model-building methodology is also a topic for further investigation: mode ling the societal-economic systems with changing structure; modeling with small sample and fast modeling; building the clustering models.