Toward a Methodology of Collaborative Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems

Complex Systems Modeling and simulation are activities where collaboration between researchers with complementary points of view, skills and knowledge is well established and constitutes the usual working way rather than an exception. To manage difficulties of traditional modeling projects (how to translate informal knowledge into an implemented software, which intermediate model needed to be created...), lots of methodologies have been proposed. But to be well adapted to the particular case of complex systems, they need to go further. In this paper, we thus aim at providing a complete methodology taking into account the collaborative aspect of the Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation task. We thus describe collaboration between various participants and propose a minimal set of tools necessary for a modeling platform.