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Perturbation Analysis: A Complex Systems Pattern
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Geard, N., Willadsen, K. & Wiles, J.
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Patterns are a tool that enables the collective knowledge of a particular
community to be recorded and transmitted in an efficient manner. Ini-
tially developed in the field of architecture and later developed by software
engineers [6], they have now been adopted by the complex systems mod-
elling community [15]. It can be argued that, while most complex systems
models are idiosyncratic and highly specific to the task for which they are
constructed, certain tools and methodologies may be abstracted to a level
at which they are more generally applicable. This paper presents one such
pattern, Perturbation Analysis, which describes the underlying framework
used by several analytical and visualisation tools to quantify and explore
the stability of dynamic systems. The format of this paper follows the
outline specified in [15].
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