Application: Designing Policy Options for Obesity Prevention

Complex adaptive systems-of-systems are inherently multi-scale across several dimensions, including temporal, geographical, and organizational. We present a multimodel paradigm integrating a localized community-scale individual-based model (IBM) with a population scale system dynamics (SD) model to analyze long term results of potential policy interventions for obesity prevention.

Background

Publications

• 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 2011, Washington, DC

• Paper: A Multi-scale Paradigm to Design Policy Options for Obesity Prevention: Exploring the Integration of Individual- Based Modeling and System Dynamics, Ozge Karanfil, Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Theresa J. Brown, Aldo A. Zagonel, Robert J. Glass
• Presentation: A Multi-scale Paradigm to Design Policy Options for Obesity Prevention: Exploring the Integration of Individual-Based Modeling and System Dynamics, Ozge Karanfil, Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Theresa J. Brown, Aldo A. Zagonel, Robert J. Glass