15:00-17:00 | Festsaal

Conveners:

Elena Rovenskaya, Advancing Systems Analysis Program Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Fabian Wagner, Senior Research Scholar, Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Abstract

Over the last 50 years numerous approaches have been developed and adopted by systems analysis (SA) to analyze complex socio-environmental systems. Advances in applied mathematics, operations research, management science, mathematical statistics, and data science, among other areas, have revolutionized our ability to understand the world around us, anticipate consequences of decisions and minimize trade-offs between conflicting objectives. Conventional SA methods are powerful to identify solutions in idealized settings of perfect information and rational behavior of agents. In many instances these conditions are good approximations of reality. In many other instances, however, humans and institutions do not behave consistently with these assumptions. For policy analyses and policy support to become more useful and expedient, we need methods and techniques that make relevant humans and institutions an integral part of research. This session reviews a few of such approaches. Talks include newest highlights from game theory benefitting from more realistic assumptions regarding agent behavior; studies of behavior using big data from social media, and diverse examples of participatory research combining modelling and stakeholder interaction.

Speakers:

Elina Brutschin, Research Scholar, Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Alexander Lebedev, Research Specialist, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Gerald Midgley, Professor, Systems Thinking, Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull, UK

Martin Nowak, Professor, Mathematics and Biology, Harvard University, USA

Valeria Javalera Rincon, Research Scholar, Advancing Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Eeva Vilkkumaa, Assistant Professor, Aalto University School of Business, Finland