One Model to Rule them All … and Through Emergence, Bind Them

Jawahar Bhalla, Stephen Cook, David Harvey (The University of Adelaide)

Keywords

Systems Models;Systems Thinking;Iceberg Model;MBSE;Engineering of Systems;Model of Systems Model

Abstract

In a contemporary context of models being central to understanding systems and the model-based engineering of systems, this paper explores the possibility of a meta "model of systems models”, seeking to find, in “Gandalf’s phraseology”, “One model to rule them all, one model to find them, one model to frame them all, and through emergence bind them”.