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6Consequences and Attempting to Reach an Operative Conclusion

The problem in the reality of some researchers is not falling into the intoxication of the technique and the endless acquisition of data, without entering again into the field of hypothesis and its verification by experience. (Kourilsky 2014)

Another dimension of ignorance, which is also not integrated into a strategy, is that it is not possible to explore all fronts of research at the same time and that progress in one field is sometimes paid for in the withdrawal from another. (Girel 2013b)

Researching is inventing the world; it is setting new rules of functioning for an ephemeral world. Not like the tyrants who also invent a new world for themselves, but impose it upon others. The researcher does not recreate the world, but rather unravels it to make it. They imagine one, then compare it with the real world to clarify it and not to exhaust it. Researching is an endless quest. The more we move forward and the less we know, the more we understand and the more we measure complexity. The more you empty the barrel, the less you reach the bottom. (Rose 2001)

Modeling is inherently multidisciplinary since it interrogates objects (physical, biological, social, economic) using mathematical and/or computer formalism. It is also ubiquitous and necessary for understanding the major challenges of our society, such as global warming, the preservation of energy resources and biodiversity. (Charles 2016)

Since the 1960s, the ...