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Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises

Research with real-world application is at the core of the Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises’ (CCSE’s) interdisciplinary study of complex enterprise systems. 

Mission

Founded in 2012, the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises (CCSE) partners with industry, government and academia to confront enterprise challenges and engineer a better future with improved quality of life. Its research addresses inter- and transdisciplinary issues through evidence-based, unbiased decision-making across four key domains: aerospace & defense, AI/machine learning applications, healthcare, and transportation and logistics.

CCSE develops computational models and prototypes of complex enterprises to help business leaders and policymakers assess the impact of potential decisions, avoid unbeneficial moves, explore alternatives, and turn data into meaningful action. The center accelerates the conceptualization, development and validation of multi-level computational models that drive real improvements in these systems.

Data science, machine learning, AI and systems engineering are woven into the research, supporting better policy, system design and integrated learning for a smarter, more adaptive future. A core focus is on enabling stakeholders to use data effectively through rapid development of sophisticated models.

As society’s large-scale systems and critical infrastructure grow more complex and interconnected, improving them requires a cross-cutting approach that includes engineering, physical sciences, economics, finance, management, behavioral and social sciences. CCSE’s goal is to generate insight and value by interactively exploring real and computationally imagined systems using a holistic, interdisciplinary lens. The center both creates new tools and methods and integrates existing ones to meet this challenge.

Leadership

Carlo Lipizzi (clipizzi)
Carlo Lipizzi
Director, Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises - since 2021

How We Work and Who We Work With

At CCSE, our research integrates human-centered concepts, models, tools, and data to foster the deep understanding needed to drive meaningful change in complex systems and enterprises. These systems demand significant processing and visualization capabilities, which we meet through a combination of local resources in our "Immersion Lab" and cloud processing.

In partnership with key industry leaders, we aim to inform and advance evidence-based decision making in complex systems and enterprises via computational modeling, data analytics and interactive visualizations.


Research Areas

CCSE's research addresses complex real-world issues with the aim of enabling better decision-making and developing trustworthy systems for a progressing, evolving future. Our research portfolio, embedded in data-driven techniques, spans thematic areas that are either intrinsically complex and/or provide the conceptual elements to address complexity. Research is based on real-world needs across our primary areas of interest: artificial intelligence/machine learning, aerospace & defense, healthcare and transportation and logistics.

Image 1Aerospace and Defense

Research focuses on better addressing the needs of the evolving space value chain and the increasing data-driven strategies in defense and security.


Artificial Intelligence/Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

Research focuses on making AI/machine learning elements parts of complex systems and leveraging natural language processing and data science and visualization.


HealthcareHealthcare

Research focuses on applying human factors, machine learning and systems engineering methodologies to key healthcare challenges.


Transportation & LogisticsTransportation & Logistics

The future of transportation and logistics lies in technology and innovation. Our research leverages automated technologies to impact the intersection of transportation, human behavior, the environment and society.