Systems & complexity
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Knowledge exchange and creation at the grassroots
What is the role of trust in knowledge sharing in organisations and communities of practice (CoPs)?
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Modeling With Agents: The State Transition Diagram [Systems thinking & modelling series]
There are three ways a transition from one state to another can be triggered.
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Modeling With Agents: Introduction [Systems thinking & modelling series]
There is an alternative modeling paradigm to System Dynamics and it is excellent for modeling discrete individuals. It is called…
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Optimization and Complexity: The Cost of Complexity [Systems thinking & modelling series]
Wouldn’t a model have to be better if you included all known mechanisms? On the surface this argument is quite…
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Optimization and Complexity: Finding the Best Fit [Systems thinking & modelling series]
After choosing how to measure a fit quantitatively, we need to find the set of parameter values that maximize the…
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Optimization and Complexity: Multi-Objective Optimizations [Systems thinking & modelling series]
So far we’ve focused on optimizing parameter values for a single objective. But what if we had two or more…
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Optimization and Complexity: Goodness of Fit [Systems thinking & modelling series]
A good fit is one where the historical and simulated results are very close together.
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A systems thinking perspective on guns at school
Systems thinking can gives us good insights into complex issues.
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Sidelining citizens when deciding on transport projects is asking for trouble
The common practice for transport infrastructure planning across Australia is not what can be reasonably called “best practice” in citizen…