Call for Invited Abstracts
Stream “Methodology of Societal
Complexity”
20TH IFORS CONFERENCE
OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Barcelona, Spain, 13-18 July 2014
The
International Research Society on
Methodology of Societal Complexity and the EURO
Working Group
on Methodology of Societal Complexity organizes
the Stream “Methodology
of Societal Complexity” with the following Sessions:
Session I: “Societal Complexity and Economy”
Session Code:
9bbf30e6
Session II: “Societal Complexity and Sustainable Development”
Session Code: 0d1be992
Session III: “Societal Complexity
and Healthcare”
Session Code: 55d27cd5
Session IV: “Societal Complexity and Internet Privacy”
Session Code: 2f13b71e
Please submit your abstract of not more than 600
characters (incl. blanks; please no mathematical symbols) through the “Abstract
Submission” system at the conference homepage
http://www.ifors2014.org/.
Please refer to the Session (Invitation)
Code of the Session of
Methodology of Societal Complexity.
The
stream “Methodology
of Societal Complexity” is a part of the
Main Area
The paper presenters are invited to submit after the conference their paper for
publication in one of our journals
Important dates:
Abstract submissions opens:
1 November 2013
Abstract submissions closes: 31
January 2014
Early Registration:
1 November 2013 - 28 February 2014
Regular Registration:
1 March - 30 April 2014
Late and on-site registration:
1 May - 13 July 2014
IFORS Conference:
13-18 July 2014.
Associated partner event:
“State of the Art and next Questions”
in cooperation with
EURO MSC / EURO MCDA / EUROPT / EURO ORD / OR and Ethics”
Sunday morning, 13 July 2014
Prof.
Dr. Dorien DeTombe
Chair International Research
Society
Methodology of Societal Complexity
P.O. Box 3286, NL-1001 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands, Europe T: +31 20 6927526
E-Mail: DeTombe@nosmo.nl
www.complexitycourse.org/doriendetombe.html
http://www.complexitycourse.org/EuroMSC.html
We welcome contributions on Methodology of Societal Complexity
The subject of Methodology of Societal
Complexity
Methodology of Societal Complexity focuses on methods and tools for handling
complex societal problems. Handling means analyzing, structuring, guiding and
evaluating complex societal problems.
Complex societal problems are often policy problems that can occur in many
fields, like in the Agro-industry (Mad-Cow disease, BSE; Foot- and Mouth
disease; Fowl Plague, birds flu), in the transportation sector, in healthcare
(Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Sars, Flu), in Water affairs and Global Safety. It focuses
also on handling local safety problems like large city issues and natural
disasters as flood and hurricanes as well as global safety problems like war,
terrorism. Although many of these issues have a different cause, they have so
much in comment that they can be approached in the same way.
Complex societal problems as such, are unstructured, dynamical and constantly
changing and have a large impact on society on macro, meso and on micro level.
Handling complex societal problems needs a special interdisciplinary approach.
The content knowledge comes from content experts. The process knowledge comes
from facilitators. The attention of the research group is on the methods and
tools facilitators need for supporting these kinds of problems. The facilitators
use methods specially created for the field of societal problems combined with
methods and insights derived from their original field like medicine, law,
economics, societal sciences, methodology, mathematics, computer sciences,
technology, engineering sciences, chaos theory and operational research. Often a
combination of methods is needed. In this way the field uses all kind of methods
from social sciences and operational research. An often-used approach is
simulation. A simulation model is one of the powerful tools to describe societal
complexity. With simulation models one cannot only understand the causal
relations between the phenomena but also see what effect changes have.
Keywords: Methodology, Decision, Simulation, Societal Complexity, Healthcare,
Economy, Sustainable Development, (Internet) Privacy
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