Questions for Review, Discussion, and Reflective Writing

Q1. How should we think about systems? Why is it necessary to have multiple descriptions of a system?

Q2. What is required to begin work on describing a system?

Q3. What is reflected in the system documentation?

Q4. What is a description method? Who uses it and for what purpose?

Q5. How is the description method related to the subject of interest?

Q6. Why and how do system descriptions appear?

Q7. Provide an example of a model, a meta-model, a multi-model, and a mega-model.

Q8. How does modeling differ from meta-modeling?

Q9. What are the four main descriptions of a system as a “transparent box” that you have studied?

Q10. Give an example of a mismatch between the functional and modular parts of a system.

Q11. What is considered in each cell of the 3x3 Table?