Addressing modern societal challenges often requires the consideration of sociotechnical systems. Sociotechnical systems consist of technological, organizational, and social systems interacting to achieve a goal. Developing effective approaches to modeling sociotechnical systems could enable policy makers to better understand the implications of policy options prior to implementation. Through past work, the authors evaluated a modeling methodology intended to accomplish that goal. While the methodology was found to be useful, there were also significant limitations. In this paper, the authors analyze these limitations through the lens of consolidative versus exploratory modeling. The result is a substantial revision of the modeling methodology that moves from a sequential 10‐step process to a multiphase process intended to facilitate exploratory modeling and detect unintended policy consequences.

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对社会技术系统进行建模以促进探索性政策分析的方法

应对现代社会挑战通常需要考虑社会技术系统。社会技术系统由相互协作以实现目标的技术，组织和社会系统组成。开发有效的社会技术系统建模方法可以使政策制定者在实施之前更好地了解政策选择的含义。通过过去的工作，作者评估了旨在实现该目标的建模方法。虽然发现该方法是有用的，但也存在很大的局限性。在本文中，作者通过整合与探索性建模的角度分析了这些局限性。