Modern warfare relies heavily on advanced technologies and systems. To maintain an edge over adversaries, the military must continuously adapt and acquire cutting-edge capabilities. A key enabler in ...

As we end the first fifth of the 21st Century, human societies face global challenges of unimaginable scale. Global pandemics pose the risk of killing millions of people and paralyzing economies.

The Centre for Complex Systems is one of the largest in the UK working on statistical mechanics aspects of dynamical systems and stochastic systems, and on complex systems and complex networks. The ...

Complex systems such as metabolic pathways, ecosystems, the Internet, or human societies are comprised of large numbers of components that interact according to rules that change over time and that ...

There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.

In 1985, Checkland described the need for a new paradigm for “rational intervention in human affairs” (1). He emphasized that all practical action is based on an intellectual framework that makes the ...

Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules found within materials. The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics knits ...