Description:
This research trend is being used more and more in the big
applied research institutions such as INRA6
, CIRAD7
or CEMAGREF8
and suggests
models with joint “resource/exploitation” dynamics, between field and theory, that
are supposed to both produce knowledge about complex systems and facilitate the
dialog between users and the learning of collective decision making concerning the
management of ecosystems and renewable resources. We may wonder if in this shift
from systemic analysis to systemic modeling, and then the building of expert
systems using computing modeling tools, there might be some confusion between
what is called a mathematical model, which is supposed to be extremely reliable in
its own realm of application, and mathematico-computing models that are supposed
to simulate various dynamic behaviors (some of which cannot be expressed
mathematically) in scripts that impact the spatial system