The Journal on Policy and Complex Systems aims to promote professional and public understanding of the relationship between policy studies and complex systems thinking, evolving greater understanding and engagement. Through its publication, JPCS hopes to establish a venue for reporting results of exploring, developing, and evaluating policies using cutting edge computational approaches to policy research, including complexity theory, agent-based modeling/simulation, chaos theory, fractals, dynamicals systems, and the science of networks. It also aims to establish a repository of data and systems developed through research efforts reported in the journal. It is the hope of the journal, and all of those involved in its publication, to bring together a community of multi- disciplinary and inter-disciplinary scholars to address common societal concerns including social scientists, natural scientists, computational scientists, humanists, policy analysts, public administrators, and policy makers.