Social Simulation
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Agent-Based Models
Formal models are increasingly being used to study social dynamics. Agent-Based Modelling has become one of the most succesful techniques due to its flexibility to explore human interaction using a bottom-up approach.
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Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution is one of the most recent and interesting approaches to the crucial task of understanding how society works. The aim of this initiative is to develop a unified framework capable of understanding cultural change beyond the knowledge of any single discipline.
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Policy analysis
Policy analysis shapes our society in many ways. Increasingly, modelling and simulation are gaining popularity to study social dynamics. These techniques provide a virtual laboratory to test what-if scenarios that can assess decision making processes.
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Smart and resilient cities
We are interested in studying how to use the analysis of structured and unstructured data to address societal challenges such as energy efficiency, e-government, or public safety. More specifically, our research is related with in semantic and open data for smartcities and analysis of textual information.