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Title Managing Emergence in Safety-Critical Organizations
Abstract My WAI talk will be dedicated to research, which I've been doing in the frames of my Veni project "Managing Emergence in Safety-Critical Organizations". In this research, a formal, agent-based approach is being developed to understand and predict how safety issues (global system properties) emerge from local interactions and behavior of human and technical actors in complex safety-critical organizations (e.g., air navigation service providers, power plants, railway systems). The approach is based on both simulation and analytical techniques. The approach can be used for formal risk assessment, identification of safety issues, and evaluation of effects of changes in safety-critical organizations.