ABSTRACT

Accurate models of social and cultural behavior have the potential to dramatically improve strategic planning, but in order to be incorporated into decision-making, models must be validated. lt is important to develop computational tools to support the efficient, deep, validation of theoretical social science models. An effective computational tool requires a representation that is sufficiently formal to be validated but not a specific computational implementation of the model. We call these model descriptions qualitative models or metamodels and the language they are described in as a metamodel description language. We present the motivating goals of our representation, its key elements, and examples of its use.