The Annual Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems (HICS) started in 1994 to address the intellectual community concerns on human and system design issues in evolving complex systems. Mr. Waldrop in his book, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos notes that “Complex systems are more spontaneous, more disorderly, more alive…” It is also ubiquitous—begging for a collective inquiry of its behaviors with respect to the changes scales and dimensions of internal and external inputs. You are encouraged to join diverse experts as they share their theoretical and practical experiences on this discipline.

HEAR from experts from both the military and industry as they discuss their experiences on dealing, coping, and working with complex systems, how the conduct the sense making process, and how the make decisions.