Cognitive features of information modeling during design of complex information systems

The article is devoted to the problems of information modeling of complex information systems. Two of the most controversial and debatable issues of information modeling are considered: the business case for simulation and its cognitive aspects. The article shows that the “driving” force of modeling is the economic feasibility of this activity in the process of designing and creating complex and expensive systems. Cognitive aspects come to the fore during design and creation of complex information systems involving a large team of intensively interacting specialists. All studies and findings are backed up with convincing examples from the practice of design and development of complex and expensive systems, mainly, aircraft systems.