Complex Systems Analysis

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Apr 24, 2025

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

How should policy analysis best inform society’s attempts to navigate tumultuous times? Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty can provide vital information while helping repair broken conversations among experts, decisionmakers, and the public.
Feb 28, 2025

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Oct 14, 2024

Campaigning in the Grey Zone: Towards a Systems Approach to Countering Hybrid Threats

Presents an approach to strategic and military campaigning against hybrid threats based on systems thinking principles.
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Oct 10, 2024

Facilitating the Transition to 100% Carbon-Free Electricity with Multi-Objective, Multi-Scenario Decision Support

In 2018, the city of Los Angeles set the goal of achieving 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045. This is a step into the unknown, since no city of comparable size currently has 100% carbon-free electricity derived primarily from solar and wind.
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Sep 20, 2024

Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System

This essay argues for providing a systems thinking lens to the Joint Concept for Competing.
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Sep 18, 2024

Transforming Systems to Realize Equitable Health and Well-Being for Black and Latino Families

Researchers evaluated the first three years of the Healthy and Equitable Futures initiative, which seeks to center racial health equity in systems serving Black and Latino children and families in the greater Rochester, New York, area.
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Sep 18, 2024

Shifting Systems Toward Racial Equity for Child Health: An Evaluation of Healthy and Equitable Futures

The authors evaluated the first three years of the implementation of the Healthy and Equitable Futures initiative, which seeks to center racial health equity in systems serving Black and Latino children and families in Monroe County, New York.
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Sep 16, 2024

How Media Narratives Can Be Used in Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Practice?

How media narratives intersect with DMDU to inform and to leverage the complexities of modern contemporary public challenges.
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Jun 25, 2024

Developing Models and Metrics to Assess the Impacts of Complexity in Operational Settings

The authors of this report assess mathematical strategies for quantifying complexity in wartime environments and provide a framework that will help make complexity a concrete consideration in operational settings.
Apr 20, 2024

Systems Transitions Applied Research (STAR) Initiative

The Systems Transitions Applied Research Initiative focuses on developing concepts, strategies, and practical tools for dealing with systemic problems of health, education, prosperity, national security, and more.
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Mar 26, 2024

A Primer on Graph-Theoretic Models and Metrics: Using Graphs for Modeling and Assessing Robustness

This primer on graph theory provides tools to improve the rigor, reproducibility, and scalability of analytical tools that support cybersecurity assessment, nuclear surety, and nuclear safety certification.
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Feb 5, 2024

Charting Your Course: A Guide to Analyzing State Policy Studies

This workshop provides an overview of analytic methods available for state policy evaluation studies, including details on key decision points for an analysis that helps identify which methods are most appropriate for different analytic contexts.

Complex Systems Analysis

Complex Systems Analysis

Leveraging Complexity in Great-Power Competition and Warfare: Volume I

Graph Theoretic Algorithms for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Program

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Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

Services and Impact

Campaigning in the Grey Zone: Towards a Systems Approach to Countering Hybrid Threats

Facilitating the Transition to 100% Carbon-Free Electricity with Multi-Objective, Multi-Scenario Decision Support

Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System

Transforming Systems to Realize Equitable Health and Well-Being for Black and Latino Families

Shifting Systems Toward Racial Equity for Child Health: An Evaluation of Healthy and Equitable Futures

How Media Narratives Can Be Used in Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Practice?

Developing Models and Metrics to Assess the Impacts of Complexity in Operational Settings

Systems Transitions Applied Research (STAR) Initiative

A Primer on Graph-Theoretic Models and Metrics: Using Graphs for Modeling and Assessing Robustness

Charting Your Course: A Guide to Analyzing State Policy Studies

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Complex Systems Analysis

Complex Systems Analysis

Leveraging Complexity in Great-Power Competition and Warfare: Volume I

Graph Theoretic Algorithms for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Program

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

Services and Impact

Campaigning in the Grey Zone: Towards a Systems Approach to Countering Hybrid Threats

Facilitating the Transition to 100% Carbon-Free Electricity with Multi-Objective, Multi-Scenario Decision Support

Getting Strategic Competition Right: Competing for the System

Transforming Systems to Realize Equitable Health and Well-Being for Black and Latino Families

Shifting Systems Toward Racial Equity for Child Health: An Evaluation of Healthy and Equitable Futures

How Media Narratives Can Be Used in Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Practice?

Developing Models and Metrics to Assess the Impacts of Complexity in Operational Settings

Systems Transitions Applied Research (STAR) Initiative

A Primer on Graph-Theoretic Models and Metrics: Using Graphs for Modeling and Assessing Robustness

Charting Your Course: A Guide to Analyzing State Policy Studies

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