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Embracing Social Uncertainties With Complex Systems Science, Pascal Perez
Embracing Social Uncertainties With Complex Systems Science, Pascal Perez
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Human ecosystems are real-life systems characterized by very strong and longterm interactions between human communities and their environment; as such they constitute an expansion of the ecological concept of ecosystem. According to Stepp and colleagues (2003), human ecosystems not only process matter and energy flows, but - and more specifically - information flows as well. Therefore, they display very specific characteristics due to our ability to communicate and learn from others, creating the conditions for co-evolutionary processes in which chance lends a hand to necessity. Bradbury (2006) argues that, until recently, human beings had been able to adapt to changes …
Diffusion And Social Networks: Revisiting Medical Innovation With Agents, Pascal Perez, N Ratna, A Dray, Q Grafton, D Newth, T Kompas
Diffusion And Social Networks: Revisiting Medical Innovation With Agents, Pascal Perez, N Ratna, A Dray, Q Grafton, D Newth, T Kompas
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
the classic study on diffusion of Tetracycline by Coleman, Katz and Menzel (1966). Medical Innovation articulates how different patterns of interpersonal communications can influence the diffusion process at different stages of adoption. In their pioneering study, individual network (discussion, friendship or advice) was perceived as a set of disjointed pairs, and the extent of influences were therefore, evaluated for pairs of individuals. Given the existence of overlapping networks and consequent influences on doctors’ adoption decisions, the complexity of actual events was not captured by pair analysis. Subsequent reanalyses (Burt 1987, Strang and Tuma 1993, Valente 1995, Van den Bulte and …
Safe Water For People In Low, Small Island Pacific Nations: The Rural-Urban Dilemma, Ian White, Tony Falkland, Taboia Metutera, Mourongo Katatia, Tererei Abete-Reema, Marc Overmars, Pascal Perez, Anne Dray
Safe Water For People In Low, Small Island Pacific Nations: The Rural-Urban Dilemma, Ian White, Tony Falkland, Taboia Metutera, Mourongo Katatia, Tererei Abete-Reema, Marc Overmars, Pascal Perez, Anne Dray
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
The issue of ensuring that growing communities in small island countries have access to safe water and adequate sanitation is examined in Kiribati, whose islands are spread over three million square kilometres in the central Pacific. Its coral island communities have water supply and sanitation problems among the most difficult in the world. Formulaic developed-world approaches, models, techniques and toolboxes that do not consider the social and cultural context have had little success. Changes in approach at the international, national and local levels are called for, and the resourcing of village-level water and sanitation committees would return ownership and control …
An Agent-Based Framework For Simulating Socio-Organisational Design Of Large Projects, Ricardo Peculis, Derek Rogers, Peter Campbell
An Agent-Based Framework For Simulating Socio-Organisational Design Of Large Projects, Ricardo Peculis, Derek Rogers, Peter Campbell
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
The success of large projects depends on how people associated in teams and organisations perform their tasks and cooperate to achieve a shared goal. Success depends on an effective socio-organisational design that defines organisational structures; human resources in the form of people's abilities, roles and responsibilities; and establishing processes and contracts that will drive measures of success. Predicting the behaviour of large projects is difficult and the performance of the socio-organisational design is likely to be validated only when it is put in to practice. Simulation offers a way to explore the likely behaviour of social systems without the drawback …