Event

DAY ONE

Introductory remarks - Linda Dennard, Goktug Morcol and Kurt Richardson

Key Note Speaker

Complexity and managing to survive it - Graham Mathieson, dstl, UK

BREAK

The purpose behind the method: Does complexity introduce new
organising principles for policy analysis? Linda Dennard

Lunch

Policy analysis for sustainable development: Complexities and
 methodological responses - Hens Runhaar, Carel Dieperink
and Peter Driessen (powerpoint presentation)

BREAK

Panel Session One - Is there anything new that complexity brings to policy analysis? Are there existing approaches/philosophies used in policy analysis that the complexity community could learn from?

Jeffrey Goldstein, Goktug Morcol, David Kernick

DAY CLOSE

WORKSHOP DINNER

DAY TWO

Key Note Speaker

Robust Policy Analysis for Complex Open Systems - Steven E. Bankes, RAND, USA

BREAK

Quantitative models from qualitative data: Case studies in agent-based socio-political modeling - David S. Dixon and William N. Reynolds

LUNCH

Panel Session 2 - What is the role of 'models' in the policy decision-making process? What do we mean by 'model'? Is model validation a myth?

Graham Mathieson, Scott Hammond, Jack Cohen

Poster Session 1 - Application

From Worst Slum to Best Example of Regeneration: Complexity in the Regeneration of Hulme: Manchester - Cletus Moobela (Poster)

A complexity approach to the role of social policy in the saving of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust - Jeffrey Goldstein and Galina Nikolova (Poster)

Agent-Based Modeling of Lottery Markets: Policy-making from the bottom-up - Shu-Heng Chen and Bin-Tzong Chie (Poster)

Self-organization, complex adaptive systems and metropolitan governance - Jack W. Meek (Poster)

Questioning cultural orthodoxy: Policy implications for Ireland as an innovative knowledge based economy - Dermot Casey and Cathal M. Brugha (Poster)

The role of 'waste' in complex systems - Kurt A. Richardson (Poster)

The complexity of concept mapping for policy analysis - William M. K. Trochim and Derek Cabrera (Poster)

Networks and Complexity: Prospects and challenges for a theory of metropolitan governance - Göktuğ Morçöl

Poster Session 2 - Theory

Controlling chaotic systems: perspectives for economic policy - Marisa Faggini (Poster)

Voting complexity and electoral outcomes: An agent-based model of condorcet social choice problems - David Earnest (Poster)

Economic policy hints from heterogeneous agents' simulation - M. Salzano (Poster)

An inquiry on the collective memory of industrial networks: A simulation tool for policy makers - Francesca Borrelli, Luca Iandoli, Cristina Ponsiglione and Guiseppe Zollo (Poster)

Complexity-informed policy development and analysis - David Levick (Poster)

Facilitating resource decision making in public organisations drawing upon insights from complexity theory - David Kernick (Poster)

On the limits of bottom-up computer simulation: Towards a nonlinear modeling culture - Kurt A. Richardson (Poster)

Illuminating risk: The complexity of trans-disciplinary collaborative efforts - Maureen Brown, Robert Flowe and Sean Hamel (Poster)

Integrating policy analysis and complexity: Developing the new specialization of integration and implementation sciences - Gabriele Bammer (Poster)

Complex spectra and atomic structure theory as a 'spectroscopic paradigm' for diversity-related complexity - Annie Ginibre (Poster)

DAY CLOSE

DAY THREE

Key Note Speaker

Systemic Intervention for Community Involvement in Complex Policy Analysis - Gerald Midgley, ESR, NZ

BREAK

Emergence in the Irish housing system: Agent-based modelling for public service policy development - Mary Lee Rhodes (powerpoint presentation)

LUNCH

Liberating Emergence: Activating Adjacent Opportunities - Ron Schultz, Volunteers of America

Closing Remarks