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From Social Simulation to Integrative System Design
As the recent financial crisis showed, today there is a strong need to gain
"ecological perspective" of all relevant interactions in
socio-economic-techno-environmental systems. For this, we suggested to set-up a
network of Centers for integrative systems design, which shall be able to run
all potentially relevant scenarios, identify causality chains, explore feedback
and cascading effects for a number of model variants, and determine the
reliability of their implications (given the validity of the underlying
models). They will be able to detect possible negative side effect of policy
decisions, before they occur. The Centers belonging to this network of
Integrative Systems Design Centers would be focused on a particular field, but
they would be part of an attempt to eventually cover all relevant areas of
society and economy and integrate them within a "Living Earth Simulator". The
results of all research activities of such Centers would be turned into
informative input for political Decision Arenas. For example, Crisis
Observatories (for financial instabilities, shortages of resources,
environmental change, conflict, spreading of diseases, etc.) would be connected
with such Decision Arenas for the purpose of visualization, in order to make
complex interdependencies understandable to scientists, decision-makers, and
the general public.Comment: 34 pages, Visioneer White Paper, see http://www.visioneer.ethz.c
Report from the Tri-Agency Cosmological Simulation Task Force
The Tri-Agency Cosmological Simulations (TACS) Task Force was formed when
Program Managers from the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
expressed an interest in receiving input into the cosmological simulations
landscape related to the upcoming DOE/NSF Vera Rubin Observatory (Rubin),
NASA/ESA's Euclid, and NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
The Co-Chairs of TACS, Katrin Heitmann and Alina Kiessling, invited community
scientists from the USA and Europe who are each subject matter experts and are
also members of one or more of the surveys to contribute. The following report
represents the input from TACS that was delivered to the Agencies in December
2018.Comment: 36 pages, 3 figures. Delivered to NASA, NSF, and DOE in Dec 201
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