A Collaborative Tool for Modeling and Simulating Social Complex Systems

The goal of this research is to de-velop tools and method for collabora-tive thinking about social complex sys-tems with computer simulation. The tools proposed in this paper help mod-elers to develop a simulation program just by drawing model diagrams in the modeling language. We also explore a new method for collaborative model-ing conducted by two modelers, which we call “pair modeling”. We take up comments by modelers and discuss what happens in pair modeling, apply-ing social system theory. As a con-clusion, we suggest that pair model-ing is effective method for collabora-tive thinking, which is essentially dif-ferent from single modeling.