Dr. Hermans has some great ideas for me... helping IPA through future stages of it's evolution.
Where today, IPA works very well for evaluating and integrating smaller theoretical models, Frans showed how very large models could be evaluated using methods and software from graph theory, network theory, social network analysis (basically, we treat the concepts as people and the causality as communication).
This is a very important concern. We need these kinds of advanced tools if we hope to create policy models of sufficient breadth and depth to allow us to understand and resolve the problemsof the world.
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