Special Guest Lecture

Research Tools for Visualizing Complexity
Systems of Care: Going from the Ground to the Screen
An Overview of Ethnography,
Visualization and Complexity Models

Wednesday • December 7
10–11:30 am

Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute Westside A

Change in large social systems—such as humanservices delivery systems--is notoriously difficult to achieve. To understand the mechanisms of change, research methods must describe complex adaptive system in useful ways. This session features research tools in use worldwide by government and business to study, model, and influence systems of human behavior. This unique seminar brings transdisciplinary lessons from two of the foremost analysts of complex adaptive systems, illustrating the interface of traditional research methods with new modeling approaches. Agar and Guerin will demonstrate how agent-based modeling and equation-based modeling combine qualitative and quantitative techniques to create powerful methodology to study system functioning.

This Seminar is sponsored by the Department of Child and Family Studies and
the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida.
For information, contact Cindy Liberton, 813-974-6144.
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USF is an equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Institution. A minimum of five days in advance of the event if a reasonable accommodation for a disability is needed. Please notify Dan Casella at 813 974-4163.