Paul--Came across this a while back, http://
www.complexityandpolicy.org/projectdescp.htm, and there's a DC
complexity/policy center at http://www.complexsys.org/. When I still
lived in Bushville I remember finding all sorts of things scattered
on the web in various corners of govt. Might be good to check the
Brookings web page. The ABM modeling of drug epidemics under the NIH
grant that ended a couple of years back lead to some policy
suggestions, if you're interested in that as an example. Article in
JASSS can be accessed through the web page as can an Agents04
presentation with Steve and Robert that showed how analysis of
parameters suggested a shift from epidemiology to consumer marketing.
I'm heading to a UN event next week to talk complexity. Maybe we can
discuss it at FRIAM this Friday?
Mike Agar
www.ethknoworks.com
On Jan 23, 2007, at 8:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The major concern in organizational real time monitoring is
choosing the correct and most useful indicators. At UNDP for whom
I worked for years we constantly monitored both organizations and
projects.sometimes with models, sometimes without. The choice of
indicators clearly skews the results and future decisions and
developments.
Actually systems biologists do use models to study natural systems
whether it be species, evolution of species or ecosystems. I seem
to recall a computer model programme called SAS (?) that was used
to model evolution of species. That was in the late 1980s. It was
very cumbersome and slow.
I am particularly interested in models applied to politics and how
to achieve progressive change and adaptive management strategies.
Has anyone used these kind of models?
Paul Paryski
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