Methodology of Societal Complexity focuses on methods and tools for handling complex societal problems. Handling means analyzing, structuring, guiding and evaluating complex societal problems.

Complex societal problems are often policy problems that can occur in many fields, like in the agro-industry (mad-cow disease, BSE; foot- and mouth disease; fowl plague, birds flu, Q-fever), in the transportation sector, in healthcare (malaria, HIV/Aids, Sars, flu), in Water affairs, economy (credit crisis) and global safety. It focuses also on handling local safety problems like large city issues and natural disasters as flood and hurricanes as well as global safety problems like war, terrorism. Although many of these issues have a different cause, they have so much in comment that they can be approached in the same way.

Complex societal problems as such, are unstructured, dynamical and constantly changing and have a large impact on society on macro, meso and on micro level.

Handling complex societal problems needs a special multi-disciplinary approach. The content knowledge comes from content experts. The process knowledge comes from facilitators. The attention of the research group is on the methods and tools facilitators need for supporting these kinds of problems. The facilitators use methods specially created for the field of societal problems combined with methods and insights derived from their original field like medicine, law, economics, societal sciences, methodology, mathematics, computer sciences, technology, engineering sciences, chaos theory and operational research. Often a combination of methods is needed. In this way the field uses all kind of methods from social sciences and operational research. An often-used approach is simulation.

Keywords: methodology, complex societal problems, decision, simulation, societal complexity

Important dates

Deadline for invited abstracts Notification of acceptance invited abstracts Deadline for other abstract submission:	December 31, 2009 January 15, 2010 February 28, 2010
Notification of acceptance other abstracts:	March 15, 2009
Deadline for early registration:	March 31, 2009
Deadline for author registration (for inclusion in the programme):	April 30, 2009
Conference:	July 11-14, 2010

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Regular Early (before April 1, 2009)	320 Euro
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Accompanying Persons	120 Euro
Banquet (Tuesday night?)	70? Euro

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