Is the creation of artificial systems. Traditional engineering designs and constructs artificial physical systems based on the fundamental natural sciences of physics, chemistry and biology and creates new artificial sciences such as aeronautics, pharmaceutics, and computing. The application of this knowledge to create artificial systems is called design. Some designed system are complicated.

Continue the conversation on the GSS Blog. After three successful years GSDP endet on November 9, 2013. Continue discussion on the GSS Blog. The GSS Orientation Paper as well as the GSS Synthesis Paper can be downloaded here. More information about Global Systems Science can be found in our.

See my recent article in THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY. Journal where I reflect on my fifteen years as a complexity scientist. The article includes my TOP TEN things about complexity you may not know but should! Links to this post.

I am a research fellow at the University of Szeged, in Hungary. I do research at the overlap between computer science and social science. I am interested in open distributed systems that include both machine and human agencies where the imposition of central control is not an option. Not just technology but, human societies. I have explored these ideas through evolutionary cooperation theory ,. That focus on social interaction rather than traditional economics-type incentive mechanisms.

Zajonc Institute for Social Studies. Open Collaboration for Policy Modelling. Open Collaboration for Policy Modelling. Narratives for Europe semi-open format of collecting narratives via ICT tools.