Call for
invited
Papers
Methodology of Societal Complexity
The 22nd European Conference on Operational Research
Czech
Republic, Europe
July 8-11 2007
for
info this page
Euro
Working Group on Methodology of Societal Complexity 2007: http://www.geocities.com/doriendetombe/detombeeuroprague2007.html
General
information of the Conference: http://euro2007.vse.cz/
Stream
organizer: Dorien
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
The
theme of the conference is ‘OR creates bridges’ between rich countries and
developing countries
The
stream of 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
Send
abstracts for one of the sessions as invited papers
before 31
January 2006
Notification
of acceptance: 28 February
2007
Important dates deadline for early registration
April 15, 2007
We
welcome contributions of: methodology of societal complexity
send abstracts/papers 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
Global
Safety & Sustainable Development & Healthcare
Methodology
of Complex Societal Issues
Book of abstracts of the
participants Euro XXII Prague 2007
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.
The
bridges we like to create are the bridges between alpha, beta and gamma
sciences; between social, technical and natural sciences. between theory and
practice; between East and West Europe; between poor and rich countries;
between theory and politics.
Keywords: methodology, complex societal
problems, decision, simulation, societal complexity
some
general info:
Important dates
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Submission for abstracts starts:
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September 2006
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Deadline for invited abstracts
Deadline for other abstract submission
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January 31
2007
February 28, 2007
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Notification of acceptance:
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March 15, 2007
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Deadline for early registration:
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April 15, 2007
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Conference:
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July 8-11, 2007
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Regular Early (before April 15, 2007)
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300 Euros
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Regular Late (after April 15, 2007)
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400 Euros
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Student Early (before April 15, 2007)
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150 Euros
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Student Late (after April 15, 2007)
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200 Euros
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Accompanying Persons
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100 Euros
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Banquet (Tuesday night)
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50 Euros
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CONTACTS AND INFORMATION:
For any
further questions and information you may consult the Euro website at: http://euro2007.vse.cz/
These
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
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