E-MailThe Software Modeling Revival: Is Modeling Growing a Stubble?
Mathematicians love simplicity; less so engineers. This appears to be the case in modeling, where in recent years, software engineers have been accused of complicating things unnecessarily. In his quest for simplicity, Professor Francis Heylighen of the Université Libre de Bruxelles has enlisted the help of the famed Occam's razor principle. 1 As Heylighen explains, the principle cautions us to choose only the simplest member from a set of equivalent models of a phenomenon. "In any given model," he asserts, "Occam's razor helps us to 'shave off' those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon" [2].
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