Call for invited Papers
Methodology of Societal Complexity
The 23rd European Conference on Operational Research
EURO
XXIII,
Bonn
, 2009
Germany
,
Europe
July 5- 8
2009
http://www.euro-2009.de/
Book
of Abstract Societal
Complexity & Sustainable Development & Healthcare
DeTombe
(Ed.) 2009
Methodology of Societal Complexity
Stream
Methodology of Societal Complexity consists of:
Session I : Societal
Complexity and Safety
Session II :
Societal Complexity and Sustainable Development
Session III : Societal
Complexity and Healthcare
Workshop
Societal Complexity : State
of the Art and next Questions
Send the abstract for one of the sessions as invited
paper before 1 December 2008 to stream organizer: Dorien J. DeTombe
Euro
Working Group on Methodology of Societal Complexity
International Research
Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity
P.O. Box. 3286, 1001 AB
Amsterdam
,
The
Netherlands
,
Europe
Tel: +31 20 6927526
E-Mail: DeTombe@nosmo.nl
http://www.geocities.com/doriendetombe
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Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2009
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, complex
societal problems, decision, simulation, societal complexity
Important dates
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Submission for
abstracts starts:
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October 2008
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Deadline for invited abstracts
Notification of acceptance
invited abstracts
Deadline for other abstract submission:
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December
1, 2008
January
15, 2009
March 1, 2009
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Notification of acceptance other abstracts:
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March 31, 2009
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Deadline for
early registration:
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April 1, 2009
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Deadline for author registration (for inclusion in the programme):
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April 15, 2009
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Conference:
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July 5-8, 2009
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Registration
fee
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Regular Early (before April 1, 2009)
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340 Euro
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Regular Late (after April 1, 2009)
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440 Euro
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Student Early (before April 1, 2009)
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180 Euro
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Student Late (after April 1, 2009)
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280 Euro
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Accompanying Persons
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120 Euro
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Banquet (Tuesday night)
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70 Euro
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Contacts and information:
For any further questions and information you may
consult the Euro website at: http://www.euro-2009.de/
This may already answer many of your questions. You may also
directly contact the Session Organizers.
Other
activities organized by the International Research Society on
Methodology of Societal Complexity see agenda
Dr.
Dorien DeTombe
Chair International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity
P.O.
Box. 3286, 1001 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe
Tel: +31 20
6927526
Tel: +31 20
6927526
Tel: +31 20
6927526
Tel: +31 20
6927526 E-Mail: DeTombe@nosmo.nl
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