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Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute

We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective and sufficient to contain them. Many common approaches do not provide a good picture of the actual system behavior, bec...

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Autores principales: Helbing, Dirk, Brockmann, Dirk, Chadefaux, Thomas, Donnay, Karsten, Blanke, Ulf, Woolley-Meza, Olivia, Moussaid, Mehdi, Johansson, Anders, Krause, Jens, Schutte, Sebastian, Perc, Matjaž
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26074625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-014-1024-9
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author Helbing, Dirk
Brockmann, Dirk
Chadefaux, Thomas
Donnay, Karsten
Blanke, Ulf
Woolley-Meza, Olivia
Moussaid, Mehdi
Johansson, Anders
Krause, Jens
Schutte, Sebastian
Perc, Matjaž
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Brockmann, Dirk
Chadefaux, Thomas
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Schutte, Sebastian
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description We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective and sufficient to contain them. Many common approaches do not provide a good picture of the actual system behavior, because they neglect feedback loops, instabilities and cascade effects. The complex and often counter-intuitive behavior of social systems and their macro-level collective dynamics can be better understood by means of complexity science. We highlight that a suitable system design and management can help to stop undesirable cascade effects and to enable favorable kinds of self-organization in the system. In such a way, complexity science can help to save human lives.
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spelling pubmed-44570892015-06-10 Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Dirk Chadefaux, Thomas Donnay, Karsten Blanke, Ulf Woolley-Meza, Olivia Moussaid, Mehdi Johansson, Anders Krause, Jens Schutte, Sebastian Perc, Matjaž J Stat Phys Article We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective and sufficient to contain them. Many common approaches do not provide a good picture of the actual system behavior, because they neglect feedback loops, instabilities and cascade effects. The complex and often counter-intuitive behavior of social systems and their macro-level collective dynamics can be better understood by means of complexity science. We highlight that a suitable system design and management can help to stop undesirable cascade effects and to enable favorable kinds of self-organization in the system. In such a way, complexity science can help to save human lives. Springer US 2014-06-05 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4457089/ /pubmed/26074625 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-014-1024-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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