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  IoT and Digitization Will Reconnect System Engineering and Science

  John Blyler

  2-22-2019

  The fully connected world is quickly becoming a reality. Architects and developers of this new world must understand both the hardware and software basics of IoT and IIoT systems as ...Read More

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  Performativity of Models

  Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

  2-15-2019

  Inspired by Latour's work in social studies of science and technology, Callon, MacKenzie and others developed a performativity critique of economics. Building on this, Healy (2015) recently discussed ...Read More

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  What if our Beliefs about a System are not Wholly Accurate? What if?

  Gary Langford

  2-1-2019

  For most people, a system is a construct with vexing complexities, many many parts, and perhaps wrapped with a goal or intention. Add to that simple construct a set of ...Read More

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  The Complexities of Open Data

  Hector Dominguez

  1-18-2019

  Hector Dominguez is the current Open Data Coordinator at the City of Portland, and there are several lessons learned and strategies developed in the several months of work in this ...Read More

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  Latent Space Models for Temporal Networks

  Jasper Alt

  1-11-2019

  In many contexts we may expect the structure of networks to be derived from some kind of abstract distance between actors. We refer to this phenomenon as homophily: like nodes ...Read More

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  Modeling Public Susceptibility to Fake News

  Dale Frakes

  10-12-2018

  This session will present on-going research in using Agent Based Modeling to study applying Inoculation Theory to mitigating the spread of false-news. Inoculation Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory) comes from the ...Read More

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  Systems Evolution and Engineering Thermodynamics

  Terry Bristol

  10-5-2018

  Despite impressive contributions, the philosophical foundations of systems theory remain in flux. In the practical context, the proper understanding of the relation of the systems framework to classical mechanics and ...Read More

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  One Government's Use of LCA: An Introduction

  Peter Canepa

  3-2-2018

  The scale and extent of humanity’s global demand, in terms of total material output from the technosphere, has been estimated at 30 trillion metric tons and rising. Extracting, manufacturing, transporting, ...Read More

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  How are Data Science and Systems Science Connected?

  Ted Laderas

  2-15-2018

  Data Science is a relatively new interdisciplinary field, taking concepts from statistics and machine learning to produce predictive models. However, Systems Science concepts (such as feature-feature interactions and dynamics) have ...Read More

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  Smart Cities Initiatives in the Portland Region

  Kristin A. Tufte

  2-9-2018

  This talk will describe work in Smart Cities in the Portland region. We’ll begin with the framework and motivation for the Smart Cities work and the question What is a ...Read More

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  Natural Selection, Mental Action, and the Sciences

  Steve Staloff

  2-2-2018

  Although overlooked by contemporary evolutionary biology, mental action -- recognized through learning and decision-making -- is present in every living organism. In this presentation I explain how, starting from shortly ...Read More

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  Teaching for Risk Tolerance: Intellectual Virtue in Mathematics Education

  Holly Brewster

  1-12-2018

  An important aspect of navigating the world as an adult is the appropriate response to risk, including processing and evaluating information related to likelihood of occurrences and impact of consequences. ...Read More

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  The 2016 Oregon Waste Composition Study: Quantifying Disposal of Materials

  Peter Geissert and Peter Spendelow

  11-17-2017

  This presentation will discuss the background, methodology and field results from the 2016 Oregon Waste Composition Study including the following:

  
  • The tons of solid waste disposed in Oregon or ...Read More

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  Science, Global Finance and Decarbonization: Is there a Common Transactional Framework for COP21, Agenda2030 and Habitat III?

  Hank Patton

  10-28-2016

  Estimates of as much as 10 trillion in annual capital investment will be required to meet the COP21 carbon and UN sustainable development commitments unanimously adopted by the community of ...Read More

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  Social Science in the Information Age: Toward a Paradigm for Integrating Research, Publication and Theory Development

  Jonathan Straus

  3-11-2016

  The application of the scientific method to social psychology and related disciplines has long been rife with controversies, and recent failures to replicate many of the results from classical psychology ...Read More

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  Helping Scientists Connect Their Datasets

  David Maier

  3-4-2016

  Scientific datasets associated with a research project can proliferate over time as a result of activities such as sharing datasets among collaborators, extending existing ones with new measurements, and extracting ...Read More

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  Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Collaborative Modeling: An introduction

  Antonie J. Jetter

  2-5-2016

  Fuzzy Cognitive Map Modeling is a system modeling approach that has its roots in social science and artificial intelligence. FCM are comparatively easy to create, are well understood by audiences ...Read More

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  Evaluating Urban Heat Islands: Case Studies from Doha, Qatar and Portland, Oregon

  Vivek Shandas and Jackson Lee Voelkel

  1-29-2016

  With ever-increasing populations in urban areas, and major changes to our climate system, a public health imperative is to prepare for dangerous weather events in cities. Extreme weather events, such ...Read More

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  Computational Biology and T-Cell Receptor Sequencing

  Patrick Michael Leyshock

  1-22-2016

  Leyshock will begin with an overview of Computational Biology work at OHSU, then take a closer look at T­cell sequencing pipeline under development. The pipeline itself will be discussed, as ...Read More

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  Stress Physiology in Humans: a Systems Approach to Stress, Stressors, and Resilience

  Barry S. Oken

  1-15-2016

  This talk focuses on the biology of stress and resilience and their biomarkers in humans from the system science perspective. A stressor pushes the physiological system away from its baseline ...Read More

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  Living Systems Immersion: Sustainability and PDC in the Peruvian Andes

  David E. Hall

  12-4-2015

  This past summer David led a PSU study abroad course to Peru, Living Systems Immersion: Sustainability and PDC in the Peruvian Andes. The course focused on sustainability education, following the ...Read More

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  Prediction: The Quintessential Model Validation Test

  Wayne Wakeland

  10-9-2015

  It is essential to objectively test how well policy models predict real world behavior. The method used to support this assertion involves the review of three SD policy models emphasizing ...Read More

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  Four Decades of Systems Science Teaching and Research at PSU

  Wayne Wakeland

  10-10-2014

  Systems science (SySc) is defined, and a brief background is provided regarding some of the systems science-related societies, conferences, journals, research institutes, and educational programs. The SySc program at Portland ...Read More

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  Civic Ecology: Living Community Systems for Sustainability

  Tim Smith

  11-30-2012

  Civic Ecology is a stakeholder-driven, whole systems framework for creating sustainable communities. The framework focuses on empowering citizens of all ages, cultures, and abilities to envision, create, and manage their ...Read More

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  System Dynamics Modeling of Prescription Opioid Pain Reliever Abuse

  Alexandra Nielsen

  10-12-2012

  The nonmedical use of prescription opioid pain relievers and associated overdose deaths have been labeled an epidemic by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. While these medicines play an ...Read More