Key questions
Our research at the Chair of Systems Science summarised in five questions:
1. How can cooperation be enhanced?
2. How can altruists be protected from exploitation?
3. How can socio-ecological systems be made more sustainable and successful?
4. How can we become systematically creative and generate innovation?
5. Are there universal principles for solutions at the intersection of biology and technology?
Our areas of expertise are
Renewable Energy and Natural Resources
- Sustainability and Environmental Governance
- Energy system analysis (e.g. agent-based modelling of energy markets)
- Natural resource management (fisheries, irrigation systems, forest management)
Cooperation problems
- Tragedy of the commons
- Evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics
- Altruism and egoism from an evolutionary perspective
Creativity
- Systematic creativity in science
- Invention systems (e.g. TRIZ)
- Bionics
Miscellaneous
- Theory of science & evolutionary epistemology
- Machine learning, formal semantics (e.g. WordNet) & computer-based ontologies