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Morphological box
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Morphological analysis was designed for multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable problems where causal modeling and simulation do not function well or at all. Fritz Zwicky developed this approach to seemingly non-reducible complexity (Zwicky, 1966, 1969). Using the technique of cross consistency assessment (CCA) (Ritchey, 2002), the system however does allow for reduction, not by reducing the number of variables involved, but by reducing the number of possible solutions through the elimination of the illogical solution combinations in a grid box.
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Robert A. Heinlein has his characters use a "Zwicky box" in Time Enough For Love, to figure out what's available to break the ennui of his 2000 year old character.
- Ritchey, Tom (2002). General Morphological Analysis: A general method for non-quantified modeling. Available at http://www.swemorph.com/ma.html
- Zwicky, F., Discovery, Invention, Research - Through the Morphological Approach, Toronto: The Macmillian Company (1969).
- Zwicky, F. & Wilson A. (eds.), New Methods of Thought and Procedure: Contributions to the Symposium on Methodologies. Berlin: Springer (1967).
- Swedish Morphological Society
- MA/Casper A proprietary software system which supports an extended form of Morphological Analysis.
- Modeling Complex Socio-Technical Systems using Morphological Analysis Adapted from an address to the Swedish Parliamentary IT Commission, Stockholm, December 2002.