The Model of Development of Limnology as Informational System

Limnology is young and quite closed field developed by several hundreds of scientists. International Society of Limnologists is holding meetings since 1922. Proceedings of meetings were used to find out principal stages of history of this science (rapid and calm periods). The simulation model of limnology development was built on the basis of such analysis. Every scientist can generate with some probability new ideas and elaborate existing ones. The model includes as parameters the properties of scientists and surroundings (age, experience, level of contacts between scientists, etc). After the model was tuned experiments with different parameters was made. They demonstrate level of contacts influences most strongly on rapidity of the science development.