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This paper identifies possible pitfalls of simulation modeling and suggests ways to prevent them. First, we specify five typical pitfalls that are associated with the process of applying simulation models and characterize the "logic of failure" (Dörner 1996) behind the pitfalls. Then, we illustrate important aspects of these pitfalls using examples from applying simulation modeling to military and managerial decision making and present possible solutions to them. Finally, we discuss how our suggestions for avoiding them relate to current methodological discussions found in the social simulation community.

Calculative culture and its impact on risk assessment An organizations culture, and specifically its calculative culture, impacts how and which risks are assessed (Power 2007). Mikes (2009) distinguishes ERM by the numbers and holistic ERM, which differ regarding their approach to assessing risks, raising the question of how the assessment of risks is impacted by the organization's culture. A cognitive perspective on risk assessment We need to better understand how actors think and communicate about risks (Power 2016). We can improve the understanding of how risk management happens in organizations by accounting for the sense-making of decision-makers regarding risks (Taarup‐Esbensen 2019). Distributed cognition in risk assessment Risk assessment needs to bring together expertise from several domains and to include different perspectives on a risk (ISO 2009). The cognitive task of assessing a risk is shared between several stakeholders, a setting described as distributed cognition (Hutchins 1995). Risk workshops as a tool of risk assessment A common approach to identify and assess risks are workshops, where people with different roles and hierarchies within the organization discuss and share their knowledge to come to an evaluation of certain risks (COSO 2017). Participants start with a list of predefined risks and discuss each risk for a limited time. The discussion ends with a decision on how to classify a risk, e.g., regarding its impact (Quail 2011).

This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a 'scientific ethos'. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and why different forms of scientific ethos have developed since the mid-18th century. The studies also illuminate associated styles of rhetorical argumentation.

Virtually all current major social and environmental challenges such as financial crises, migration, the erosion of democratic institutions, and the loss of biodiversity involve complex systems comprising decision-making, interacting, adaptive agents. To understand how such agent-based complex systems function and respond to change and disturbances, agent-based modeling (ABM) is increasingly recognized as the main way forward. Many motivating examples of agent-based models exist that are realistic enough to successfully support the management of complex systems, but these solutions are case-specific and contribute few general insights into the functioning of systems. General theory, though, is highly needed because we cannot model each system and question. Still, across disciplines, a critical mass of expertise has accumulated that could transform ABM into a more coherent and efficient approach to discover the functioning of complex social-economic-ecological systems. To this end, we need a cross-disciplinary discussion among researchers and a goal-oriented synthesis to identify the general principles and theories essential to improve our understanding and management of complex systems.

Im Fokus des Bandes "… und raus bist du" stehen Kinder und Jugendliche, deren Sozialisations- und Entwicklungsbedingungen einerseits von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung, andererseits häufig auch von dysfunktionalen Familiensystemen, Gewalt und Schulversagen geprägt sind. Die pädagogisch-fachlichen sowie die institutionellen Anforderungen in der Arbeit mit jener Klientel sind Belastungstests für die Qualität inklusiver pädagogischer Angebote. Die Beiträge analysieren demnach einerseits zentrale Herausforderungen gegenwärtiger pädagogischer Praxis mit Kindern und Jugendlichen mit hohem emotionalsozialen Förderbedarf, formulieren andererseits Entwicklungsvorschläge für eine tatsächlich inklusive Professionalisierung und entsprechende institutionelle Rahmungen. Es zeigt sich, wie groß der Hilfe- und Unterstützungsbedarf bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Verhaltensstörungen ist und welche ressortübergreifenden Anstrengungen unternommen werden müssen, um einer Absenkung fachlicher Standards entgegen zu steuern.

Die Selbstverständlichkeit, einen Körper einfach nur zu haben, ist uns abhanden gekommen. Immer mehr gilt: Seinen Körper macht macht sich! Grund genug, die Wissenschaften nach verständlicher Auskunft zum Stand der Dinge, aber auch nach Standpunkten zu fragen. Das Spektrum der behandelten Themen reicht vom Kult um den Körper, vom rastlosen Streben nach Schönheit, von der Inszenierung der Geschlechter in virtuellen Räumen über die Bedeutung des Körpers für die politische Sphäre bis zu den Möglichkeiten der Transplantationsmedizin und den Fantasien der Körperverbesserung.