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Challenges in Making Policy Decision-Support Systems Operational

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Given the increasing complexity of the international policy environment, there are strong incentives to employ modern computation in the form of models and simulation to help analysts address and account for this complexity. While academic examples of such complex system policy models have been available for some time, they are not yet able to be used effectively and consistently in operational policy environments due to a range of technical gaps and challenges including: (1) simulation; (2) Human Machine Interface (HMI); and (3) data. Specific examples for each type of policy model challenge will be developed in this paper.

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  1. System of Systems Analysis Corporation (SoSACorp), 11250 Waples Mill Rd. Suite 300, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Corey Lofdahl

  2. Charles River Analytics, 625 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Martin Voshell

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Lofdahl, C., Voshell, M. (2018). Challenges in Making Policy Decision-Support Systems Operational. In: Hoffman, M. (eds) Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60747-4_10

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