Exploratory Modeling

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Tool

Mar 13, 2025

OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations

This R-based tool (and accompanying tutorial) allows users to create Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center (OPTIC)-style policy wheel data visualizations that illustrate the timeline over which state policies are implemented.
Research

Mar 7, 2025

A Missile Jamming and Engagement Model

This report describes a missile jamming engagement model that was developed to help assess the dependence of an air-launched missile on signals from airborne or space-based assets for success in an engagement under a plausible set of conditions.
Tool

Jan 19, 2023

Chesapeake Bay Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST)

The Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST) is an interactive, searchable database of empirical, statistical, and conceptual models relevant to water- and climate-related planning and decisionmaking in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and beyond.
Article

Apr 28, 2022

Tracking Migration Amid War and Disease

Researchers from RAND and RAND Europe have been working on a way to better track migrant numbers, country by country and state by state, in almost real time. They do it by tapping into one of the largest information-gathering operations on the planet, Facebook.
Research

Dec 16, 2021

Using social media data to 'nowcast' international migration around the globe

The aim of this study was to develop a tool to 'nowcast' migrant stocks by using real-time data from the Facebook Marketing Application Programming Interface (API) and official migration data from EU member states and states in the United States.
Research

Feb 16, 2021

Influencing Adversary States: Quelling Perfect Storms

RAND researchers describe an experimental "thinking-Red" approach to analysis, wargaming, and other exercises to help inform strategies to avoid aggression or escalation in a crisis. It features alternative models of the adversary.
Research

Sep 25, 2019

Sacramento Area Council of Governments Peer Review

This is a peer review of Robust Decision Making, an exploratory modeling approach for informing decisions under deep uncertainty, and the Exploratory Analysis and Modeling Tool, focusing applications for the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.
Research

Jul 15, 2019

Independent Review and Assessment of the Air Force Ready Aircrew Program: A Description of the Model Used for Sensitivity Analysis

This report outlines a computational model to measure whether flying units can feasibly meet U.S. Air Force continuation training requirements, presents the model's specifications, and describes how it was used to assess the Ready Aircrew Program.
Research

Apr 16, 2018

Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and Its Modeling

Social-behavioral modeling is famously hard. This report examines shortcomings and obstacles -- some inherent to complex adaptive systems broadly and some due to current methods and practices -- then discusses steps that deserve priority attention.
Tool

Nov 8, 2017

Interfacing Force-on-Force and Communications Models: MANA and JNE

This report documents an interface between an agent-based force-on-force simulation and a network simulation for the U.S. Army's Cyber Center of Excellence, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate (CDID), Cyber Battle Lab.
Research

Sep 12, 2016

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

This report stems from a congressional request for an independent report about the U.S. Department of Defense's capabilities for joint analysis and ways to improve them.
Research

Jul 12, 2016

Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control: Aligning Models and Other Tools with Policymakers' Needs

This report provides an overview of decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, for policymakers and modelers and provides recommendations for using the tools to inform real-world infectious disease-related policy questions.

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OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations

A Missile Jamming and Engagement Model

Chesapeake Bay Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST)

Tracking Migration Amid War and Disease

Using social media data to 'nowcast' international migration around the globe

Influencing Adversary States: Quelling Perfect Storms

Sacramento Area Council of Governments Peer Review

Independent Review and Assessment of the Air Force Ready Aircrew Program: A Description of the Model Used for Sensitivity Analysis

Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and Its Modeling

Interfacing Force-on-Force and Communications Models: MANA and JNE

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control: Aligning Models and Other Tools with Policymakers' Needs

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OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations

A Missile Jamming and Engagement Model

Chesapeake Bay Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST)

Tracking Migration Amid War and Disease

Using social media data to 'nowcast' international migration around the globe

Influencing Adversary States: Quelling Perfect Storms

Sacramento Area Council of Governments Peer Review

Independent Review and Assessment of the Air Force Ready Aircrew Program: A Description of the Model Used for Sensitivity Analysis

Priority Challenges for Social and Behavioral Research and Its Modeling

Interfacing Force-on-Force and Communications Models: MANA and JNE

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control: Aligning Models and Other Tools with Policymakers' Needs

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