A.3.3.TR:10 - Architectural Rationale
The independently useful result is a rule for modeled change. Configuration construction establishes compatible arrangements; prediction sufficiency asks whether retained information supports the needed future distinction. Neither contribution by itself connects the interactions and operations that produce allowed continuations.
A relational description keeps joint constraints and unresolved alternatives available before a computation chooses how to solve or explore them. This supports physical, mathematical and computational reasoning together. It also lets a reader alter the inputs or seek a different unknown without discarding the already useful relations.
Atomic actions, continuous equations, event resets and stochastic transitions have different semantics and can use different temporal scales. Their shared construction requires explicit participating quantities and effects; their specialized solution and validation Methods retain the substantive differences.