Kinds of Models in Sciences, Engineering, and Daily Life

Models are universal, partly silent and wonderful tools of the art of thinking and acting. Computer science is particularly affected here and has developed hundreds of different approaches for model conceptions and modelling approaches. One wonders, therefore, whether there should not be an art and science of models with a common conception of the term “model” for the whole science. So far, this has seemed unrealistic. We use the generic conception of model and develop on its basis derived particular conceptions depending on the use case, depending on the CoP, depending on the requirements, and satisfying concerns. We can also use it to transfer knowledge and findings for one kind of model to the other kind, thus developing modeling as one of the four guiding paradigms of Computer Science in coexistence with three other paradigms: small and large scale structuring, small and large scale dynamics, and collaboration with all its facets.