Bioprocess modelling challenges

Every abstract model represents an attempt to logically rationalise the behaviour and perhaps even the mechanism of one or other system under study. The successes in modelling are very much dependent on the nature of the system, probably not because some systems are too complex but rather because our mental constructs are too meager. Just as the equations relating to mass, force and velocity deal with the primitives in engineering, a mathematics that deals with the fundamental primitives of the system under study is needed. The concept of a model as a database should be exploited to its full potential. In this respect future modelling mechanisms as well as simulation architecture are discussed.