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Casti formed two companies in Santa Fe and London in 2000, Qforma, Inc. and SimWorld, Ltd, respectively, devoted to the employment of tools and concepts from modern system theory for the solution of problems in business and finance, as well as health care. Qforma merged with SkilaMederi in June 2013.
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Vienna, The X-Center, devoted to the study of human-caused extreme events. The X-Center has now expanded to a network of affiliated X-Centers in
Helsinki, Tokyo, Seoul, New York and Singapore. Since early 2013, Dr. Casti has been serving as a senior research fellow at the
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Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers
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Reality Rules-I: Picturing the World in Mathematics-The Fundamentals
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Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future
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Dynamical Systems and their Applications: Linear Theory
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