Abstract:The adaptive agents of social systems,emergence of their structures and diversity of their evolution paths make their scenario research necessary. Firstly,based on the views of complex science,this paper de-fines the profound connotation of scenarios in social systems. Then,a three-layer structure model of computa-bility of scenarios is analyzed in a social system. Thirdly,multivariate models of computable scenarios are built from three stages: actual scenarios to concept scenarios,concept scenarios to structured scenarios,and struc-tured scenarios to computer implementation. Lastly,In a typical complex system of asocial system-the Taihu lake basin,a scheme on computable and approximate scenarios of the system is proposed according to the re-search idea of the “top-down”and “bottom-up”. The impacts of different government preferences on the sce-narios evolution of the system are analyzed. This paper might provide new theoretical elements and methodolo-gy guidance for researches on social systems.