New Methods for Understanding Complex Systems (Part 1)

As the challenges of systems analysis develop, so must its methods. The system analyst’s tool chest can be expanded in three ways:

• by taking advantage of as yet untapped advances in mathematics and computer science,
• by the gradual honing of tools applied and developed in a disciplinary context, and
• by trans-disciplinary innovation and cross-fertilization.

This session will provide an extensive horizon scan of new methods and approaches that have potential for strengthening systems analysis in the 21st century.

Presentations

Introduction & chair: Ulf Dieckmann, IIASA

• Luis Bettencourt, SFI: The city as a system – PDF
• Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich: From computational social science to global systems science – PDF
• Siew Ann Cheong, Nanyang Technological University: Critical transitions in markets and societies – PDF

Videos