In: Lindemann, Jonker, Castelfranchi (Eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations (MASHO'01), KI-2001 Conference, Vienna, 2001. September 2001.
Also in: Rolf von Lüde, Daniel Moldt, Rüdiger Valk (Hrsg.): SozionikAktuell 3:2001. www.sozionik-aktuell.de, .
Abstract: This paper describes the modelling principles and the modelling process that are developed and used in our project group to cope with sociological real world case studies. The modelling process takes place at different levels: individual behaviour and the overall system structure, which are modelled almost independently.
Reference nets, a special form of high-level Petri nets, are used together with their development environment Renew in an iterative rapid prototyping modelling process. The model may be executed showing only the desired properties of the model. It is possible to switch between views on the model even at run time.
Keywords: modelling, multi agent systems, reference nets, sociology, socionics.