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Complexity Models

These models and simulations have been tagged “Complexity”.

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The difference between complexity and complicatedness.
Complexity vs Complicated
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Clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery. Includes Forrester quotes on statistical vs SD methods and the Modeller's dilemma. Simplified version of IM-14982 combined with IM-17598 and IM-9773
Complex Decision Technologies
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34 10 months ago
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Sources of Policy Resistance. From article Sterman, John D.  Learning from Evidence in a Complex World Am J Public Health 2006 96: 505-514. See also fighting complexity IM-1955

Policy Resistance
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From Padgett and Powell The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
Emergence of networks of networks
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6 months ago
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The basic differences between Complex and Complicated systems based generally on Csikeszenmihalyi's "The Evolving Self" as discussed in Knowledge Management: Emerging Perspectives https://www.systems-thinking.org/kmgmt/kmgmt.htm 
Perspectives on Csikszentmihalyi's views on Complexity vs Complicated
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WIP integration of dynamic and complexity insights using rubik's cube metaphor from Pop Health Book insight folders,  and others linked in notes
Beyond connecting the dots
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WIP based on Emery Roe's 2013 book. See also Dynamics in Action IM-3239 for more on behavior and The Art of the State IM-11962 for more on Grid-Group Cultural Theory
Managing Mess
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Summary of John Holland's 2012 Book, Signals and Boundaries. Integrator of Classifier, Chemical and Network Adaptive Control and Dynamic Boundaries
Signals and Boundaries
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From fighting lions (fight or flight) to fighting feedbacks in complex systems. A single person cutting the Gordian knot to the dynamic complexity of rubik's cube. Think of multiple players with multiple misperceptions of the faces on the cube and conflicting goals about what the desired solution is. Worse still, without an accepted framework we dont even know if it's a cube or another structure. See also policy resistance IM-697

Fighting complexity
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Unfolding story summary of Alexandr Bogdanov's  Tektology based on James White, Gorelik, Gare, Senalp, Jackson, Edmund Griffiths and others. See also Holland's signals and boundaries IM and Systems Science IM
Bogdanov's Tektology Universal Science of Organisation
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11 months ago
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From Roy Bhaskar et al Book Interdisciplinarity and climate change: transforming knowledge and practice for our global future 
Critical Realism
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2 months ago
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From Hieronymi's 2013 Systems Research Paper Understanding Systems Science. Systems Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies see insight
Understanding Systems Science
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Based on Nate Osgood's April 2014 Singapore Presentation Youtube video and Lyle Wallis material Gojii at DecisioTech See also Complex Decison Technologies IM as a more polished version
Complex Intervention Modeling Areas
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WIP Causation insights linked to the Behavior insight  and through this to PCT and Dynamics in Action insight. See also Causal Analysis IM and Explaining explanation IM

Causality Explanation and Understanding
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​Book (large pdf) by Alicia Juarrero subtitled intentional behavior as a complex system. Behaviour is action and change in the world, consisting of the external, mental and social world. Human action is intentional, meaningful  and hopefully effective. 

Behaviours can be:
Reactive: sense and respond
Adaptive: anticipate and learn
Generative: innovate and transform.
Which models help produce effective action?

Dynamics in Action
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Development of the success motor
Clone of Key Performance Indicators (Success Motor)
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Development of the success motor
Storytelling Key Performance Indicators (Success Motor)
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WIP based on Nate Osgood's Motivation for Dynamic Simulation Models in System Science Lecture see Youtube video at 20:34
Clone of Explaining and Intervening in Complex Systems
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Diagrams from Greene 2017 nejm article Putting the patient back together Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism
Network medicine
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3 months ago
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Development of the success motor
Key Performance Indicators (Success Motor)
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​Book (large pdf) by Alicia Juarrero subtitled intentional behavior as a complex system. Behaviour is action and change in the world, consisting of the external, mental and social world. Human action is intentional, meaningful  and hopefully effective. Behaviours can be:
Reactive: sense and respond
Adaptive: anticipate and learn
Generative: innovate and transform.
Which models help produce effective action?
Clone of Dynamics in Action
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Diagrams from Chen2011 IEEE Computer Article 

From Data Analysis and Visualization to Causality Discovery

Causal Reasoning Platform
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Grimm's ODD and Nate Osgood's ABM Modeling Process and Courses See also Pattern Oriented Modelling IM-3834

The Modelling Process
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6 4 months ago
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Improvement Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies IM-17952
Improvement Science
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