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Forward Look at Research Perspectives

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This chapter presents some on research perspectives. Various topics are treated focusing on the following issues: further analysis of the modeling of welfare policy in the case of interactions in a network and in open systems; generalization of the modeling approach to various systems of social sciences, for instance opinion formation; modeling the interplay of different types of dynamics also viewed as a tool for predicting rare events; and analytic problems posed by the application of models to the study of social phenomena.

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  1. Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris, France

    Giulia Ajmone Marsan

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Nicola Bellomo

  3. Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Tosin

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Ajmone Marsan, G., Bellomo, N., Tosin, A. (2013). Forward Look at Research Perspectives. In: Complex Systems and Society. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7242-1_5

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