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Client:

Person (or agency) who buys a model.

Facilitator:

Person who guides the group process in group model building.

Gatekeeper:

Person who forms the linking pin between modeling team and management team.

Knowledge Elicitation:

Process of capturing the knowledge contained in the mental models of team members of the management team.

Modeler:

Person who constructs the quantified model during group model building.

Recorder:

Person who takes notes during group model building sessions and constructs workbooks.

Reference Mode:

Graph(s) showing the behavior of the problem over time.

Workbook:

Booklet which contains summary of previous group model building sessions and prepares for subsequent sessions.

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Rouwette, E.A.J.A., Vennix, J.A.M. (2015). Group Model Building. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_264-3

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