Workshops at CAS2025
The Complex Adaptive Systems conference brings together practitioners and researchers and we aim to be able to share experiences also through small group, hands-on workshops. The workshops are intended to be up to 2 hours in length, free of charge for conference attendees, with no more than 40 people (sometimes as few as 10 people).
Workshops and Experiment Indication of Interest. The workshops and experiment for CAS2025 will be open to all who register for CAS2025 but may be limited by number of seats. Those who indicate interest have a better chance to confirm a seat. Please register for a workshop or experiment slot at: https://tinyurl.com/CAS-workshops
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Enabling Transdisciplinary Potential in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
Jack Stein and Ray Barton (INCOSE)
WED, March 5. 16:00 to 17:30
Location: Samberg. Room 5
Would a More Holistic Modeling Approach and Blending of Practices Across the Natural Systems (NS), Systems Engineering (SE), Program Management (PM), and cNES* (Coupled Natural and Engineered Systems) Communities Be Helpful? A premise of this workshop is that transdisciplinary interaction and more holistic system-of-systems (SoS) level views could be beneficial. Participation and active engagement from members of academia, industry, government, and professional associations involved with the study,engineering, operation, management, and effects of complex systems are welcome.
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Urban Systems Teamwork Experiment
MIT Global Teamwork Lab
Pick one of five sessions throughout the conference: sign up at the registration table.
Location: SDM Lounge
Join this real-life experiment where you will work on a sustainable urban design challenge! Participants will engage with a system model simulating a transportation hub near the Green Line extension in Somerville, MA. This experiment is a follow-up from an SDM thesis developing insights on engineering teamwork.
Each session lasts 1 hour.
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Systems Engineering Language Modeling Assistant (SELMA): A Quick Dive into AI Enhanced MBSE
Jyotirmay Gadewadikar (MITRE)
WED, March 5. 16:00 to 17:30
Location: Samberg. Room 4
This workshop provides a focused introduction to MITRE’s Systems Engineering Language Modeling Assistant (SELMA), a tool that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) into Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Participants will explore how SELMA enhances MBSE tools, enabling real-time natural language interaction for model generation and analysis. Through targeted demonstrations and interactive discussions, attendees will gain insights into how AI can streamline system design processes, particularly in industries with stringent requirements such as aerospace, defense, automotive, and healthcare.
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Assessing and Adapting the work of the INCOSE Complex Systems Working Group
Joshua Sutherland (INCOSE)
THU, March 6. 13:00 to 14:00
Location: Wong Auditorium
The purpose of this Workshop is to introduce these activities in turn, with associated progress to date, to provide the attendees the opportunity to engage, critique and provide feedback on what is most valuable and what is not. The expectation is that this feedback will help direct future research and the development of technical products, adapting them to the needs and perception of those attending the Complex Adaptive Systems conference. Discussion leads will include Dean Beale, Andy Pickard, Rudolph Oosthuizen and Ken Cureton.
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A System Dynamics & Control Perspective on AI Implementation
John Carrier (MIT)
THU, March 6. 16:00 to 17:30
Location: Samberg. Room 3.
Similar to Leavitt’s adage of the “drill vs the hole in the wall”, industry is rapidly approaching the “where’s the money” from the AI investment. The “money” comes not from purchasing technology. but applying it to change the speed and direction of the organization – namely, its System Dynamics. In this session, participants will see how application of limited AI tools can produce highly amplified results, based on Donella Meadows’s 12 Leverage Points in the Age of Digital Transformation.
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Building High-Performing Teams through Virtual Tribes
Peter Gloor (University of Cologne)
THU, March 6. 16:00 to 17:30
Location: Samberg. Room 4.
In this workshop we will use the socialcompass, an AI tool our team developed, that computes the virtual tribes of an individual. We will then form small teams composed of homogenous virtual tribes. These teams will solve a battery of collective intelligence tasks to identify optimal team composition of virtual tribe members.