Complexity International - Volume 10

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Volume 10	Received: Accepted:	28 May 2002 20 Dec 2003

The OMPHALOS model Catsora, C.
Abstract
	OMPHALOS is an Object-oriented Model for Predicting Human Activities of Learning Organisational Systems. It has been developed in late 90’s in Cardiff University for modelling complex technical, social and economical systems. This model has been designed by using the basic system dynamics theory, the principles of systems thinking, as they are implemented in the learning organisational systems and the object-oriented paradigm. The basis of OMPHALOS is the World 2 model of Professor J. W. Forrester, from MIT. The main objective for creating it, was to provide a different point of view for analysing such types of systems and a flexible, cheap and portable tool for forecasting their future behaviour. The results of OMPHALOS had shown that the integration of the basic theories of system dynamics, system thinking and object-oriented approaches were possible, and able to produce as good results as the classic models of this field, had done. The general design approach, the implementation of the system and the results will be discussed in this paper.

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Catsora, C. (2002), The OMPHALOS model, Complexity International, Volume 10, Paper ID: catsor03, URL: http://www.complexity.org.au/ci/vol10/catsor03/

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