Objective of the Workshop

Recently Big Data and IoT are booming and new possibilities of quantitative social science are expanding. Since large-scale data have become accessible, as a next step, we will expect to develop mathematical models and simulation methods based on these observation to predict social phenomena and to prevent possible crises.

This workshop aims to explore the possibility of social modeling and simulation, which will become much more important in the coming decade. The workshop consists of two parts: One includes talk sessions, where recent research progress in social physics are presented, and the other has hands-on tutorials of OACIS.

OACIS is open-source software developed by discrete-event simulation research team of RIKEN AICS, which efficiently manages the results of your simulations and other computation. See Github page or the poster below for more detail. By combining your simulators with OACIS, it is easy to conduct parameter sweep, optimization, and sensitivity analysis, etc. When modeling social phenomena, it is necessary to do many trials and errors under various assumptions. Another possible application is machine learning, which requires us to tune a number hyper-parameters. For such applications, OACIS will streamline your research workflow.

By participating in this tutorial you will be able to experience how to use OACIS and you will learn how to apply it to your own research.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Venue

Travel Support & Expected Participants

For participants, we are going to support travel and hotel expenses. The range to be covered by us is determined by the rule of our institute, and it depends on your position, travel schedule, etc. Please contact us directly for more details.

We expect participation from diverse fields including computational social science, complex systems, and agent-based modeling. Especially, young scientists (post-docs, Ph D. students) conducting computational studies are welcomed.

Since the support budget is limited, we select participants having travel support based on your research field, position, and situation. Those who are interested in extensive simulation studies are preferred.

Registration

For those who are willing to join this workshop or have a question about the workshop, please contact one of the Organizers, Yohsuke Murase, by e-mail. (yohsuke.murase @ riken.jp)

Contact Information

• Discrete-Event Simulation Research Team, RIKEN AICS
  • http://www.aics.riken.jp/en/overview/researchdiv/discrete-event-simulation-research-team/
  • Email
    • yohsuke.murase @ riken.jp (Please remove the white spaces around @)
  • Members
    • Yohsuke Murase
    • Nobuyasu Ito
    • Naoki Yoshioka
    • Shih-Chieh Wang