The Matrix of Complexity: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Studying Emergence in Coevolution

theory and formal model, the other validates the link between the model and the phenomenal world. McKelvey’s distinction is depicted in Figure 1. -------------------------------------------------------Please See Figure 1--Place about here -------------------------------------------------------The first of these activities involves the coevolution of a theory and its formal model which is an idealized—computational or laboratory—representation of the theory (Carley, 1995). In this view, theoretical adequacy is gained to the extent that the theory can explain