Cognitive maps, or mental maps, are externalized portrayals of mental models—people's
mental representations of reality and their presumptions about how the world works. They …

Many recent articles in public health risk assessment have stated that causal conclusions
drawn from observational data must rely on inherently untestable assumptions. They claim …

Detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents is a high priority
task and has been a topic of intensive research for decades. Ongoing technological, data …

Abstract Systems thinking (ST) includes a set of critical skills and approaches for addressing
today's complex societal problems. Therefore, it has been introduced into the curricula of …

Chapter 7 is about feedback, circular causality, and system dynamics modeling. Circular
causality due to positive or negative feedback is a major cause of complexity. When the …

This paper introduces pyRoCS, an open source Python-based software that enables users
to quantify resilience of complex systems. The metrics used to quantify resilience are …

For the fundamental problem of enumeration of all simple cycles of a given directed graph
with n vertices and m edges, it is known that the delay time between successive outputs of …

The climate crisis poses a major threat to sustainability, highlighting the need for climate
education that develops students' systems thinking skills regarding dynamic environmental …

Community, corporate, and government organizations are being targeted by disinformation
attacks at an unprecedented rate. These attacks interrupt the ability of organizations to make …

Forest is a dynamic entity, keep on changing spatially and temporally. In the recent past
rapid changes in the composition, structure, function and health was observed in the global …