TY - JOUR
AU - Doerner, Karl F.
AB - Annals of Operations Research (2021) 305:423–424 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04247-1 PREFACE 1 2 3 Christian Stummer  · Martin Zsifkovits  · Karl F. Doerner Published online: 1 September 2021 © The Author(s) 2021 Complex systems are a common phenomenon in real-world decision-making. The com- plexity of such systems arises from the numerous relationships involved and various interactions among diverse entities of the system or between a given system and its envi- ronment. As traditional analytical approaches often fall short of suitably capturing the behavior of complex systems, computer simulations come into play. These simulations pro- vide an opportunity to alter a modeled system, observe its emergent behavior, and, thus, answer “what if” questions regarding the effectiveness of possible measures that can be applied in an attempt to achieve the decision-maker’s aim. This special section discusses recent advances in the modeling and simulation of com- plex systems through the following four papers, one of which is a survey paper and the other three are regular papers. It should be noted that all four papers are published under an open-access license that implies that their results can be more easily disseminated to a broader community. The survey article by William Rand and Christian Stummer provides an overview of the 
TI - Preface: The modeling and simulation of complex systems
JO - Annals of Operations Research
DO - 10.1007/s10479-021-04247-1
DA - 2021-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/preface-the-modeling-and-simulation-of-complex-systems-sTWvB02pAP
SP - 423
EP - 424
VL - 305
IS - 1-2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -