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STAR Analytical Services’ Dr. Joel MacAuslan chairs a session on"Hard
Sociology": Quantitative and Validated Models of
Large-Scale Social Systems
at the International Conference on Complex Systems 2007, on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at the Boston Marriott Quincy, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
Many of the world's most pressing problems emerge from the social interactions of millions of people. Some examples include:
- two-party war - and the strong aversion of democracies to make war on each other
- single-nation political stability: when is a fledgling democracy stable against an insurgency?
- national identity: Is "Irish" more meaningful than "Protestant" to most Irish Protestants?
- economic globalization and its interactions with the global environment and climate
- epidemics and pandemics.
Most of all, such models have some capacity for quantitative predictions -- perhaps even a "management flight simulator" for an application such as negotiating a lasting peace agreement, or discovering high-leverage interventions.
For more information on this session or any other services available from STAR Analytical Services, please contact us by email at info@STARAnalyticalServices.com or phone 781-861-STAR (7827).
