Professors Christopher Koliba and Asim Zia
In a series of talks at the United States General Accountability Office, UVM professors Christopher Koliba and Asim Zia from the Community Development & Applied Economics Department, and fellows with the Vermont Complex Systems Center and the James M. Jeffords Policy Research Center, discussed the tools and techniques currently being used to model and evaluate interagency network performance and accountability. Koliba presented a talk titled,
Assessing Complex Public Sector Networks: New Developments in Research Design and Methodology. Zia presented a talk titled, Computer
Simulation Models of Interagency Networks: Applications to Transportation
Infrastructure Planning and Watershed Management. In both presentations research and modeling efforts funded through grants from the National Science Foundation and the James M. Jeffords Policy Research Center were discussed. Their talks were sponsored by the Applied Research and Methods Division of GAO.