Social Simulation
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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.
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Urban Data Science
Cities are projected to absorb more than two-thirds of the growth in global population. Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable has thus become a global priority. In our team, we use data to study the interactions that occur in cities: between their residents and with their environment.