Vester's Sensitivity Model

A comprehensive set of nine tools and associated methods for understanding complex social systems. BrainSite

Two exploratory sets of questions: --Probing Questions of Complex Systems and --Questions of Complex Systems

There are nine interacting operations that make up the structure of a cybernetic system:

# Vester's SensiMod as a System Pattern Language

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1 Describing the SYSTEM

System Description

2 Registering actuating VARIABLES

Variable Set

3 Checking for SYSTEMIC RELEVANCE

Criteria Matrix

4 Studying the INTERACTIONS

Impact Matrix

5 Determining ROLES within the system

Systemic Role

6 Examining overall INTERCONNECTEDNESS (Interactions)

Effect System

7 Cybernetics of individual SCENARIOS

Partial Scenario

8 "What if" FORECASTS and POLICY TESTS

Simulation

9 EVALUATE the system and formulating STRATEGY

Cybernetic Evaluation

# First Workshop System Description System Boundary Influencing Variables, Variable Set Interactions, Preliminary Effect System

# Second Workshop Impact Matrix Systemic Role

# Third Workshop Criteria Matrix Effect System

# Fourth Workshop Partial Scenario Simulation

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