The Complex Systems research group of the IN3 develops research towards the discovery of underlying mechanisms in complex networked systems. This time the group organises a talk on the recent advances in delving into behavioral responses by discussing the results of several experiments involving humans playing a diversity of social dilemmas by Prof. Yamir Moreno (Deputy Director, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems).
Venue
Room -1A, UOC Castelldefels building (Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, B3 building)
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 5
08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Espanya
When
15/12/2016 15.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Complex Systems research group of the IN3
Program
The modeling of social systems has recently attracted a renewed attention as a result of the Data Science revolution. Ideally, we would like to develop tools and methods that allow in-silico simulations of real-world societal scenarios and systems. To this end, it is imperative to inform models with as much details as possible about human behavior at various scales. This constitutes nowadays a challenge due to our current limited knowledge of the laws describing most human behavioral responses. In this talk, we describe recent advances in this direction by discussing the results of several experiments involving humans -in some cases a few, in others hundreds- playing a diversity of social dilemmas. We also identify the experimental (data) and theoretical challenges in the study of techno-social systems, and propose a way to tackle such problems.
Speaker
Dr. Yamir Moreno Vega, Deputy Director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) and professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics (Faculty of Sciences) at the University of Zaragoza. President of the Complex Systems Society, vice president of the Network Science Society, fellow of the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy, and editor of several publications relevant to the field of Complex Systems and its interdisciplinary applications.
The seminar will be held in English.