Systems Science is the study of general principles governing systems of widely differing types, and the use of systems ideas and methods in interdisciplinary research and socio-technical system design and management. Systems science draws on the natural and social sciences, mathematics, computer science, and engineering to address complex problems in the public and private sectors.
See also: Systems Science Program Systems Science Seminar Series
Submissions from 2013
Is the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature False?, Martin Zwick
Modeling Opioid Addiction Treatment Policies Using System Dynamics, Wayne Wakeland and Alexandra Nielsen
Modeling the Impact of Simulated Educational Interventions on the Use and Abuse of Pharmaceutical Opioids in the United States: A Report on Initial Efforts, Wayne Wakeland, Alexandra E. Nielsen, Teresa D. Schmidt, Dennis McCarty, Lynn Webster, John Fitzgerald, and J. David Haddox
Simulating Health Policy Interventions to Reduce Nonmedical Use of Pharmaceutical Opioids, Alexandra E. Nielsen, Wayne W. Wakeland, and Teresa Schmidt
Submissions from 2012
A Proposal For Indicating Quality Of Generalization When Evaluating Anns, George G. Lendaris
A Two-Stage Technology Foresight Model with System Dynamics Simulation and its Application in the Chinese ICT Industry, Hongyi Chen, Wayne Wakeland, and Jiang Yu
Complexity Theory and Political Change: Talcott Parsons Occupies Wall Street, Martin Zwick
Complexity Theory and Political Change: Talcott Parsons Occupies Wall Street [Presentation], Martin Zwick
Dynamic Simulation of Opioid Misuse Outcomes, Alexandra E. Nielsen and Wayne Wakeland
Freedom as a Natural Phenomenon, Martin Zwick
From Lundberg to SIM-ICP: Computational Physiology and Modeling Intracranial Pressure, Brahm Goldstein, Robert Tasker, and Wayne Wakeland
Measuring the Longitudinal Effects of Food Carbon Footprint Training on Consumers: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions, Robin Wikoff, Gretchen N. Rainbolt, and Wayne Wakeland
Reconstructability Analysis of Genetic Loci Associated with Alzheimer disease, Martin Zwick, Shawn K. Westaway, Stephen Shervais, and Patricia L. Kramer
Reconstructability of Epistatic Functions, Martin Zwick, Joe Fusion, and Beth Wilmot
Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Sociality in Spiders, Jessica Purcell, João Vasconcellos-Neto, Jeffrey Alan Fletcher, Marcelo O. Gonzaga, and Leticia Avilés
System Dynamics Implementation of a Model of Population and Resource Dynamics with Adaptation, Takuro Uehara, Yoko Nagase, and Wayne Wakeland
System Dynamics Modeling of Medical Use, Nonmedical Use and Diversion of Prescription Opioid Analgesics, Wayne Wakeland, Alexandra Nielsen, and Teresa D. Schmidt
Using System Dynamics to Contribute to Ecological Economics, Takuro Uehara, Yoko Nagase, and Wayne Wakeland
Submissions from 2011
A System Dynamics Model of Pharmaceutical Opioids: Medical Use, Diversion, and Nonmedical Use, Teresa Schmidt, Wayne Wakeland, and J. David Haddox
Calibration of Complex System Dynamics Models: A Practioner's Report, Rod Walker and Wayne Wakeland
Explorations on System Identification via Higher-Level Application of Adaptive-Critic Approximate Dynamic Programming, Joshua G. Hughes and George G. Lendaris
Higher-level Application of Adaptive Dynamic Programming/Reinforcement Learning - A Next Phase for Controls and System Iidentification?, George G. Lendaris
Levels of Altruism, Martin Zwick and Jeffrey Alan Fletcher
Mussar and the Renewal of Judaism, Martin Zwick
Personal Knowledge and the Inner Sciences, Martin Zwick
System Dynamics Modeling as a Potentially Useful Tool in Analyzing Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Overdose Deaths Associated with Pharmaceutical Opioid Treatment of Chronic Pain, Wayne Wakeland, Teresa D. Schmidt, Aaron Gilson, J. David Haddox, and Lynn Webster
Submissions from 2010
Comparing Discrete Simulation and System Dynamics: Modeling an Anti-Insurgency Influence Operation, Wayne Wakeland and Una E. Medina
Key Data Gaps for Understanding Trends in Prescription Opioid Analgesic Abuse and Diversion Among Chronic Pain Patients and Nonmedical Users, Wayne W. Wakeland, John Fitzgerald, Aaron Gilson, J. David Haddox, Jack Homer, Lewis Lee, Louis Macovsky, Dennis McCarty, Teresa D. Schmidt, and Lynn Webster
Reconstructability Analysis As A Tool For Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions In Studies Of Human Diseases, Stephen Shervais, Patricia L. Kramer, Shawn K. Westaway, Nancy J. Cox, and Martin Zwick
Reconstructability Analysis of Epistasis, Martin Zwick
Symbolic Structures as Systems: On the Near Isomorphism of Two Religious Symbols, Martin Zwick
System Dynamics Implementation of an Extended Brander and Taylor-like Easter Island Model, Takuro Uehara, Yoko Nagase, and Wayne Wakeland
Theories and Models of the Evolution of Altruism Unification vs. Unique Explanations, Jeffrey Alan Fletcher
Submissions from 2009
Adaptive Dynamic Programming Approach to Experience-Based Systems Identification and Control, George G. Lendaris
A Retrospective on Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Control, George G. Lendaris
Assessing the Prediction Potential of an in Silico Computer Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics, Wayne Wakeland, Rachel Agbeko, Kevin Vinecore, Mark Peters, and Brahm Goldstein
Building the Evidence Base for Family Drug Treatment Courts: Results From Recent Outcome Studies, Beth L. Green, Carrie Jeanne Furrer, Sonia D. Worsel, Scott W. M. Burrus, and Michael W. Finigan
Forecasting the Adoption of Emerging Energy Technologies: Managing Climate Change and Evolving Social Values, Kelly R. Cowan, Tugrul Daim, Wayne Wakeland, Hosein Fallah, Gerald Sheble, Loren Lutzenhiser, Aaron Ingle, and Robert Hammond
Holism and Human History, Martin Zwick
Measuring the Effects of Food Carbon Footprint Training on Consumer Knowledge, Transfer Intentions, and Environmental Self-Efficacy, Wayne Wakeland, Lindsay Sears, and Kumar Venkat
Reconstructability Analysis in Biomedical Research, Martin Zwick
The Diagram of the Supreme Pole and the Kabbalistic Tree: On the Similarity of Two Symbolic Structures, Martin Zwick
Submissions from 2008
A Conversation on Theodicy, Martin Zwick
A Review of Physiological Simulation Models of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics, Wayne W. Wakeland and Brahm Goldstein
Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade, Kumar Venkat and Wayne W. Wakeland
Higher Level Application of ADP: A Next Phase for the Control Field?, George G. Lendaris
Moving Up the CMMI Capability and Maturity Levels Using Simulation, David Raffo and Wayne Wakeland
Using Agent Based Simulation and Game Theory Analysis to Study Information Sharing in Organizations – The InfoScape, Richard Donald Jolly and Wayne W. Wakeland
Submissions from 2007
A Hybrid Simulation Model for Studying Acute Inflammatory Response, Wayne W. Wakeland, Louis Macovsky, and Gary An
Effectiveness Of a Coupled Oscillator Network For Surface Discernment By a Quadruped Robot Based On Kinesthetic Experience, Andrew H. Toland, Lars A. Holstrom, and George G. Lendaris
Experience Based Surface Discernment by a Quadruped Robot, Lars Holmstrom, Andrew Toland, and George G. Lendaris
Measuring the Accuracy of Predictions from Patient-Specific Models of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics, Wayne W. Wakeland
Modeling Fishery Regulation and Compliance: A Case Study of the Yellowtail Rockfish, Wayne Wakeland
Spinoza and Gödel: Causa Sui and Undecidable Truth, Martin Zwick
Systems Ideas and Sustainability, Martin Zwick
Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion, Martin Zwick
Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion [Presentation], Martin Zwick
The Evolution of Altruism: Game Theory in Multilevel Selection and Inclusive Fitness, Jeffrey Fletcher and Martin Zwick
Using Reconstructability Analysis for Input Variable Reduction: A Business Example, Stephen Shervais and Martin Zwick
Using Simulation to Evaluate Global Software Development Task Allocation Strategies, Siri-on Setamanit, Wayne Wakeland, and David Raffo
Submissions from 2006
An Agent-Based Model of Trade with Distance-Based Transaction Cost, Kumar Venkat and Wayne W. Wakeland
A Short Tutorial on Reconstructability Analysis, Martin Zwick
Binary Decision Diagrams and Crisp Possibilistic Reconstructability Analysis, Martin Zwick and Alan Mishchenko
Combining Linear Regression with Reconstructability Analysis: A Study of Differences in Health Status, Renato Carletti and Martin Zwick
Complex Analysis of Intracranial Hypertension Using Approximate Entropy, Roberto Hornero, Mateo Aboy, Daniel Abasolo, James McNames, Wayne Wakeland, and Brahm Goldstein
Experience-Based Identification and Control via Higher-Level Learning And Context Discernment, George G. Lendaris
Family Treatment Drug Court Evaluation Final Phase I Study Report, Sonia D. Worsel, Carrie Jeanne Furrer, Beth L. Green, and Bill Rhodes
Is Lean Necessarily Green?, Kumar Venkat and Wayne Wakeland
Reproducing Published Results from In Silico Computer Models of the Acute Inflammatory Response to Severe Sepsis, Wayne W. Wakeland, Joe Fusion, and Brahm Goldstein
Unifying Reciprocal Altruism and Inclusive Fitness Theories of Altruism, Jeffrey Fletcher and Martin Zwick
Unifying the Theories of Inclusive Fitness and Reciprocal Altruism, Jeffrey Alan Fletcher and Martin Zwick
What's Wrong with Inclusive Fitness?, Jeffrey Fletcher, Martin Zwick, Michael Doebeli, and David Sloan Wilson
Submissions from 2005
Application of Information-Theoretic Data Mining Techniques in a National Ambulatory Practice Outcomes Research Network, Adam Wright, Thomas N. Ricciardi, and Martin Zwick
A Tale of Two Methods—Agent-based Simulation and System Dynamics— Applied in a Biomedical Context: Acute Inflammatory Response, Wayne W. Wakeland, Joe Fusion, and Brahm Goldstein
Combining Optimizer and Metamodeling for Railcar Structural Optimization, Longjun Liu and Wayne Wakeland
Creating Clinically Useful In Silico Models of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics, Wayne W. Wakeland, Joe Fusion, and Brahm Goldstein
Dynamic Systems and Organizational Decision-Making Processes in Nonprofits, Jennifer S. Tucker, Jennifer C. Cullen, Robert S. Sinclair, and Wayne Wakeland
Estimation of Subject Specific ICP Dynamic Models Using Prospective Clinical Data, Wayne W. Wakeland, Joe Fusion, and B. Goldstein
Hamilton's Rule in Reciprocal Altruism and Symbiosis, Jeffrey Fletcher and Martin Zwick
Heuristic Optimization as a V&V Tool for Software Process SimulationModels, Wayne Wakeland, Stephen Shervais, and David Raffo
On-Line System Identification Using Context Discernment, Lars Holmstrom, Roberto Santiago, and George G. Lendaris
Ordering Genetic Algorithm Genomes With Reconstructability Analysis: Discrete Models, Stephen Shervais and Martin Zwick
Reconstructability Analysis and Log-Linear Modeling, Martin Zwick
Reconstructability Analysis as a Tool for Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions in Studies of Human Diseases: IEEE version, Martin Zwick, Stephen Shervais, and Patricia Kramer
Reinforcement Learning and the Frame Problem, Roberto Santiago and George G. Lendaris
The Case For Thoroughly Testing Complex System Dynamic Models, Wayne Wakeland and Megan Hoarfrost
Using Discrete System Simulation to Model the Lane County Criminal Justice System, Olgay Cangur, Bob Denouden, Bud Reiff, and Wayne Wakeland
Submissions from 2004
A Comparison of Modified Reconstructability Analysis and Ashenhurst‐Curtis Decomposition of Boolean Functions, Anas Al-Rabadi, Marek Perkowski, and Martin Zwick
A Comparison of System Dynamics and Agent-Based SimulationApplied to the Study of Cellular Receptor Dynamics, Wayne W. Wakeland, Edward J. Gallaher, Louis Macovsky, and C. Athena Aktipis
An Overview of Reconstructability Analysis, Martin Zwick
A Software Architecture for Reconstructability Analysis, Kenneth Willett and Martin Zwick
Calibrating an Intracranial Pressure Dynamics Model With Clinical Data - A Progress Report, Wayne W. Wakeland, James McNames, and Brahm Goldstein
Directed Extended Dependency Analysis for Data Mining, Thaddeus T. Shannon and Martin Zwick
Enhancements to Crisp Possibilistic Reconstructability Analysis, Anas Al-Rabadi and Martin Zwick
Guidance in the Use of Adaptive Critics for Control, George G. Lendaris and James C. Neidhoefer
Hamilton's Rule Applied to Reciprocal Altruism, Jeffrey Fletcher and Martin Zwick
Learning with Binary-Valued Utility Using Derivative Adaptive Critic Methods, Shari A. Matzner, Thaddeus T. Shannon, and George G. Lendaris
Modified Reconstructability Analysis for Many-Valued Functions and Relations, Anas Al-Rabadi and Martin Zwick
Reconstructability Analysis Detection of Optimal Gene Order in Genetic Algorithms, Martin Zwick and Stephen Shervais
Reconstructability Analysis: Theory and Applications [Editorial Introduction], Martin Zwick, Guangfu Shu, and Yi Lin