On a formalisation of the process of quantitative model building

Abstract The paper proposes a formalisation of the process of quantitative model building. One of the main structural ideas is a partition of this process into an abstraction and relaxation part. Clearly this partition not only separates different approximation procedures but also facilitates the difficult task of model validation. The modelling process is described as a sequence of abstraction and relaxation steps governed by a meta-process of various multi-person multi-criterion decisions.

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