Journal on Policy & Complex Systems

11/08/2017

ANNOUNCING THE 5TH ANNUAL PROMISING SCHOLARS IN POLICY & COMPLEXITY CONFERENCE
About the Conference
The Journal on Policy & Complex Systems is proud to announce it will be hosting a conference for graduate students, post-docs, and budding scholars as part of the Dupont Summit, which will be held Friday, December 1, 2017 at the Historic Whittemore House, 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW, Washington, DC from 4PM until 6PM. The purpose is for scholars to practice presenting their research, methodological strategies, and/or ideas on how to build scholarship in the area of policy and complexity in a relaxed setting. Presentations will be made from 4PM until 6PM and conference registration fees are waived. After the presentations, we will join for a group dinner to further discuss the presentations. There will also be an opportunity for publication in a conference proceedings book.



How to Submit a Proposal

In order to be considered to make a presentation, please send an abstract and/or overview to the Journal on Policy & Complex Systems’ Managing Editor, Liz Johnson, at Ljohnson1@carolina.rr.com (704/293-1482) by November 15th, 2017. Please visit https://policyandcomplexsystems.wordpress.com/ for further information about the journal.



The Dupont Summit

The purpose of the Dupont Summit is to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about pressing issues related to science, technology and the environment. The conference mirrors the interest of the PSO and its partners in promoting conversation about current policy concern.

Presented every year on the first Friday of December, the conference brings together academics, government, business and social leaders from a variety of backgrounds, for discussion about issues that include but are not limited to health, energy, national security, information and telecommunications, environment and climate change, biotechnology, genetics and stem cells, water and natural resources, science research and education, technology and innovation, space, and ethical, legal and social implications of science and technology. Other topics will be welcome. Our goal is to promote multidisciplinary conversation and networking across the social and political spectrum.

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Spring 2017 Table of Contents Growing Collaborations: Forecasting Changes in Partnership Networks using a Bottom-Up Approach Steve Scheinert, Asim Zia, Christopher Koliba, and Scott Merrill A Complexity Context to Classroom Interactions and Cl...

01/06/2017

Growing Inequality: Bridging Complex Systems, Population Health, and Health Disparities

George A. Kaplan, Ana V. Diez Roux, Carl P Simon, and Sandro Galea (eds.)

"This book begins the process of unraveling some of the most ‘wicked’ problems in public health.”
— Tony Iton, MD, JD, MPH—The California Endowment

Growing evidence indicates that no single factor—but a system of intertwined causes—explains why America’s health is poorer than the health of other wealthy countries and why health inequities persist despite our efforts. Teasing apart the relationships between these many causes to find solutions has proven extraordinarily difficult. But now researchers are uncovering groundbreaking insights using computer-based systems science tools to simulate how these determinants come together to produce levels of population health and disparities and test new solutions.
The culmination of over five years of work by experts from a more than a dozen disciplines, this book represents a bold step forward in identifying why some populations are healthy and others are not. Describing a series of studies that apply the techniques of systems science, it shows how these tools can be used to increase our understanding of the individual, group, and institutional factors that generate a wide range of health and social problems. Most importantly, it demonstrates the utility and power of these techniques to both wisely guide our understanding and help policy makers know what works... an intellectually courageous undertaking. It faces up to the reality of complexity in the social determinants of health. Its achievements and its documentation of difficulties will serve as a valuable foundation for the next generation of scientists and scholars who aim to understand the determinants of health and of health disparities.”
— Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Former President, the Institute of Medicine
..goes beyond the search for a simplistic answer to health disparities and instead embraces the complexity. This is exactly what is needed if we are to improve population health and eliminate disparities.”
— Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Chairman, Department of Health Policy & Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

It is increasingly likely that in the non-distant future that population health policy will be fully informed by a coherent computational decision-support system that integrates data, analytics, systems modeling, forecasting, and cost-effectiveness. This book marks a serious movement toward that future.”
— Donald S. Burke, MD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, Dean, Graduate School of Public Health UPMC, Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Available now at (print and e-versions)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1633915174/
Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/7143244

Table of Contents, list of authors, and free Chapter 1:
https://westphaliapress.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/growing-inequality-promo-final.pdf

"This book begins the process of unraveling some of the most ‘wicked’ problems in public health.” — Tony Iton, MD, JD, MPH—The California Endowment Growing evidence indicates that no single factor—but a system of intertwined causes—explains why Ame...

24/04/2017

03/10/2016

LATEST ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL ON POLICY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS

https://policyandcomplexsystems.wordpress.com/

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 2
Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics, Economics, and Financial Markets
Mirsad Hadžikadić
The Freedom of Constraint: A Multilevel Simulation Model
of Politics, Fertility and Economic Development
Zining Yang

Assessing Values-based Sourcing Strategies in Regional
Food Supply Networks: An Agent-based Approach
Caroline C. Krejci, Michael C. Dorneich, and Richard T. Stone

Enhancing Stock Investment Returns with Learning
Aggressiveness and Trust Metrics
Zheyuan Su and Mirsad Hadžikadić

Generating Anthropological and Archeological Hypotheses
in Okinawa through Agent-Based Simulation
Fumihiro Sakahira and Takao Terano

The End of (Traditional) Emergence: Introducing Reactive Emergence
Russ Abbott

Thresholds of Behavioral Flexibility in Turbulent Environments
for Individual and Group Success
Andrea Jones-Rooy

13/09/2016

Dear Academics:

�Dichotomies of Politics"

Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper presentation at the
Annual Meeting of Illinois Political Science Association (IPSA).

The conference will be held on Saturday November 12, 2016 on the Campus
North Park University/Chicago. We welcome all kind of papers in political
science, history, sociology, Religion, and introduction to your published
book.

Students from universities and community colleges with help from their
advisors are encouraged to participate for a nominal fee payable at the
Conference.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is October 7th and papers will
undergo juried review on a rolling basis, with prompt notifications of
acceptance/rejection.

All presented papers are eligible for submission to the Journal of
Illinois Political Science Review (IPSR) and all submitted papers will be
peer-reviewed for potential publication.

Please fill out the attachment and email to ipsaproposals@gmail.com
To learn more, please visit us at
http://castle.eiu.edu/~ipsa/index.php

Do not Delay � Submit a Proposal TODAY!

The Illinois Political Science Association (IPSA) seeks to represent the full range of fields and specializations in the political science discipline while providing a forum for Illinois political scientists to assemble to discuss their research and ideas on government, politics and policies. Annual...

28/08/2016

CAPS2017 - International Conference on


Complexity-Based
Analytics and
Policies for
Social Good Organizer: The Journal for Policy and Complex Systems
Host: The Robert H. Smith School of Business, UMD
Location: Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, University of Maryland, Washington, DC
April 12 – 14, 2017
Web Site: www.CAPSconference.org
CAPS 2017 is the first International Conference on Complexity-Based Analytics and Policies for Social Good. CAPS 2017 is a cross-disciplinary conference for research where the tools of Complex Systems and/or Agent Based Modeling are used to examine a wide range of policies and procedures that promote, emphasize, contribute to, improve, or otherwise positively affect social good. This includes new definitions and measures of social good, methodologies for tracking impacts and trends, data sets, analytical methods, actors and populations, dynamic models, or social-level analysis.Topics of modeling and simulation include, but are not limited to:
Economic Mobility
Access to Education
Access to Healthcare
Poverty
Justice and Fairness
Ecology
Dynamic Human Behavior
Human Factors
Digital Humanities
Socio-Economic and Financial Networks
Model Replication, Verification & Validation
Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop Simulations
Simulation Software & Computational Frameworks
Conflict Resolution & Cooperation
Coupled Human-Natural Systems
Diffusion of Innovations
Dynamics of Trust, Social Norms, Reputation & Opinion
Group Decisions & Collective Behaviors
Social Media
Retirement
Smart Cities
Social Networks
Public Policy
Digital Divide
Sustainability
Economy
Submissions Due October 31th, 2016. Please submit papers of up to 10 pages through EasyChair.
More details can be found at: www.capsconference.org.
Program Committee: Nazmiye Bacaksizlar, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA; Riccardo Boero, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Aaron Bramson, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan; Ted Carmichael, TutorGen Inc, USA.Trevor Shaun Crawford, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Dave Dixon, University of New Mexico, USA; Magda Fontana, University of Turin, Italy; Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK; Michael Givel, University of Oklahoma, USA; Marco Guerzoni, University of Turin, Italy; Mirsad Hadzikadic (Chair), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA; Liz Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA; Caroline Krejci, Iowa State University, USA; Ugo Merlone, University of Turin, Italy; Anu Miller, Cisco Systems, USA; Megan Olsen, Loyola University, USA; Mark Orr, Virgina Tech, USA; William Rand, North Carolina State University, USA; Pietro Terna, University of Turin, Italy; Elizabeth von Briesen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA; Caroline Wagner, Ohio State University, USA; Asim Zia, University of Vermont, USA.

CAPS is focused on analytics, complexity, policy, and social good. It is organized by the Journal for Policy and Complex Systems (JPCS), issued by the Policy Studies Organization (PSO). The best papers will be published in special issues of the journal. Read more …

02/08/2016

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The 9th Annual Dupont Summit 2016
on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
Friday, December 2 The Historic Whittemore House, Washington DC
The annual call for papers for this year's Dupont Summit 2016 is currently open. In order to submit a paper for consideration, please send a 1-2 page abstract to PSO Executive Director, Daniel Gutierrez, at dgutierrezs@ipsonet.org, or call 202-349-9282. The early consideration deadline will be September 15th, 2016. Proposals submitted by the early deadline will be given priority.


The goal of the Dupont Summit is to promote multidisciplinary conversation and networking across the social and political spectrum about pressing issues related to science, technology and the environment. The conference brings together academics, government, business and social leaders from a variety of backgrounds, for discussion about issues that include but that are not limited to:
Health
Energy
National security
Information and telecommunications
Environment and climate change
Biotechnology
Genetics and stem cells
Water and natural resources
Science research and education
Technology and innovation
Space
Ethical, legal and social implications of science and technology policy
Other topics are welcome. The conference mirrors the interest of the PSO and its partners in promoting conversation about current policy concerns. Please feel free to forward this invitation to any potentially interested individuals or organizations.

02/08/2016

CALL FOR PAPERS **********************************
---------- ACM MMSys 2017 ----------
The 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference

http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw

June 20-23, 2017
Taipei, Taiwan
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The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers
to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems.
While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly
published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking,
operating system, realtime system, database, mobile computing, distributed
systems, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in
the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to
view the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and
solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore:
- Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience
or systems whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through
new research results in one of more components, or
- Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented
improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or
time-dependent services.

Such individual system components include:
- Operating systems
- Distributed architectures and protocol enhancements
- Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers
- Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia
- New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses and
algorithms for their operation
- Representation of continuous or time-dependent media
- Metrics, measures and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics including but not limited to: adaptive
streaming, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 3D video,
Ultra-HD, HDR, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360 video, multimedia IoT,
multi- and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile multimedia and 5G, wearable multimedia,
P2P, cloud-based multimedia, cyber-physical systems, and multi-sensory and
multimedia experiences.

Submission Instructions
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Papers should be between 6 and 12 pages long (in PDF format) prepared in the
ACM style and written in English. The unusual length of MMSys papers is meant
to enable authors to present entire multimedia systems or present research work
that builds on considerable amounts of earlier work in a self-contained manner.
Authors who submit very specific, detailed research work that does not require
such brevity are encouraged to use less than 12 pages. The papers are
double-blind reviewed.

Submission Link: http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw/submission/mmsys

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: November 25, 2016
Reviews available to Authors: January 20, 2017
Rebuttal Deadline: January 27, 2017
Acceptance Notification: February 3, 2017
Camera-ready Deadline: April 28, 2017
Conference: June 20-23, 2017

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02/08/2016

ABM Course is Live!! Course Updates

It is finally here - our Introduction to Agent-based Modeling course with Bill Rand launched August 1st! The first unit is completely free and will give you a taste of what Agent-based modeling is and why people use it. If you haven't enrolled, now's your chance to join!

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/23-introduction-to-agent-based-modeling

Over 1300 students have enrolled and so far over 200 have paid the $50 tuition. We have increased the number of scholarships from 100 to 150, and there are still a few available. If we reach 250 paid students, we will make another 25 scholarships available.

In other course news, Liz Bradley's excellent course on Nonlinear Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches is now open for enrollment. If you haven't taken her course yet, now's your chance! It opens on September 1st. If you have taken her course before and enjoyed it, please do us a favor and help us spread the word. Share the course link with someone you think would be interested. https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/60-nonlinear-dynamics-mathematical-and-computational-approaches-fall-2016

Virtual Laboratory

The virtual laboratory in the Explore section of the website is going to be opening soon with the Fractals series of agent-based models and accompanying documentation. https://www.complexityexplorer.org/explore

Subtitles

As always, we rely on our excellent volunteers to produce the subtitles that help our courses reach more non-native English speakers. As the Nonlinear Dynamics course starts up again, we ask those of you that have a little extra time to help us caption the videos.

To see this update on our website, in full, please follow this link.
https://www.complexityexplorer.org/news/49-august-update

Enroll Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Lead instructor: William Rand Description FAQ About the Course: This course will explore how to use agent-based modeling to understand and examine a widely diverse and disparate set of complex problems. During the course, we will explore why agent-based mo...

01/08/2016

Policy Perspectives from Promising New Scholars in Complexity Paperback – June 26, 2016
by Dr. Liz Johnson & Dr. Joseph Cochran (Co-Editors)
Please check out the excellent work of these promising scholars in policy and complexity. The book can be purchased on Amazon at

https://www.amazon.com/Policy-Perspectives-Promising-Scholars-Complexity/dp/1633913600/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470014813&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=liz+johnson+promising+young

or CreateSpace:
https://www.createspace.com/6332422