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Astani CEE Seminar

Speaker: Robert. Glass, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque

Talk Title: Designing Influence in Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems or CASoS Engineering

Abstract:
Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems, or CASoS, are ubiquitous: they include people, organizations, cities, infrastructure, government, ecosystems, the planet – in short, nearly everything that includes biological and human systems. CASoS Engineering entails designing ways of influencing CASoS, or in context of many socio-technical systems, the design of institutions, technology, infrastructure and policy. Foundational to the design process is the use of models that conceptualize the system of interest and render it in a mathematical form that allows computational simulation to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of alternatives. In this talk, I will introduce critical structural and behavioral features of CASoS, a conceptual lens for modeling them, and show several example applications of CASoS Engineering (some complete, some ongoing) pulled from those found on http://www.sandia.gov/CasosEngineering/ ranging from the design of community mitigation of pandemic influenza, to the control of large value payment systems (how all our money moves across the globe), to the design of national security measures that increase (not decrease!) trans spectrum global prosperity.


Host: Dr. Patrick Lynett

Location: SHL 102

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Evangeline Reyes