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Title: Encouraging Submission of Proposals involving Complexityand Interacting Systems to Programs in the Social, Behavioraland Economic SciencesDate: 11/07/07Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesNSF 08-014November 7, 2007Subject: Encouraging Submission of Proposals involving Complexityand Interacting Systems to Programs in the Social, Behavioral andEconomic SciencesDear Colleague:Beginning in FY 2008, the Directorate of Social, Behavioral andEconomic Sciences (SBE) will augment funding in its regularprograms in order to encourage submission of proposals that advanceunderstanding of complexity and interacting systems phenomena inSBE fields.In recent years, SBE scientists have found mathematical,computational, empirical and other methods from complexity andsystems thinking productive for understanding how and under whatconditions patterns both emerge from and feed back into localinteractions, at levels extending from the molecular through thesocial to the global and across multiple time scales. Often takingadvantage of agent-based modeling, neural-network modeling, andother computer-enabled modes of discovery, such studies haverefined understanding of such properties as interdependence,self-organization, and emergence in complex SBE systems. Complexitycan sometimes be understood and explained in terms of theinteraction of simple systems.Topics might include, but are not limited to:* Projects that advance understanding of emergent phenomena inbehavioral and social systems, such as the emergence ofcreative breakthroughs in a scientist or artist; or of majorstructural shifts in the history of language; or of skilledbehaviors like walking or talking; or of norms in a fictionalonline community.* Projects that examine stability and transformation inbehavioral and social systems, such as the political systemstipping from stability to instability; a sudden cascade ofsuicidal behavior in a population of teenagers; or stabilityin the face of strong perturbations, such as the resilience ofcommunities faced with serious natural disasters.* Projects examining complex interdependent, multi-scale andemergent behavioral, neural, cognitive, or social phenomena bybuilding on, for example, scaling analyses; recurrence
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