COLIBRI is concerned with the profound changes that are coming to our living environment. The understanding of complex systems (through modeling and computer simulations) is intended to provide science, business and politics with the necessary basis for decisions in terms of sustainability.
All scientists united in COLIBRI use analytical and computer-aided methods of strategic interaction theory (game theory), network analysis, optimization and reconstruction. The focus is on complex systems, decision theory and evolutionary processes. They ask about the underlying properties of complex systems; the parameters for maintaining, growing and changing them; the effects of superposition, control, influence and abuse.
Central questions - across all disciplines involved - are:
What are the underlying properties of complex systems?
What parameters are absolutely necessary to maintain such systems and to enable growth and change?
What effect do overlays of several systems have, and how can they be controlled, influenced or misused?