New contribution of the unit in the third issue of the Science Policy Papers organized by the Mercator Foundation published: Frank, D. and Ahrweiler, P.: The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Policy Research Perspectives (2018). The contribution in the volume Whither Artificial Intelligence? Debating the Policy Challenges of the Upcoming Transformation deals with the impact of AI on policy research in the near future.
SSC 2019 seeks submissions for the following:
For further information please visit the conference webpage: Call for Submissions
Interested parties can vote for new conference formats that could be implemented in next year´s Social Simulation Conference. We have prepared a PollUnit survey for the voting, which will be accessible by 26 November 2018. You are able to vote for the formats we have already proposed in the list and/or add another innovative conference format you would like to see at SSC 2019.
For further information, click on the link to the voting or visit our conference webpage.
New article of our unit published by the Journal of Responsible Innovation: "Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N., Schrempf, B., Grimpe, B. und M. Jirotka (2018): The Role of Civil Society Organisations in European Responsible Research and Innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation Vol. 6 / Issue 1: 25-49."
Our unit will be present in considerable numbers at the upcoming Social Simulation Conference, the annual conference of ESSA. Together with Bruce Edmonds, Nigel Gilbert and Ruth Meyer, Petra Ahrweiler organized two sessions on the issue of “Social Simulation in the Policy World”. Furthermore, she will announce next year´s SSC, which will take place at the University of Mainz. Martin Neumann will give a speech entitled “Exploring the horizon of a cultural space”, which will be a part of the session “Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules in agent-based models”. Our student assistants Marc Möller-Boldt and Dario Brockschmidt will visit the conference as members of the 2019 organization team and will take a look behind the scenes of this year´s organization.
Following a successful bidding by Nigel Gilbert, Alex Penn and Petra Ahrweiler, the ESRC has granted funding for a new, CECAN-related research project entitled 'New approaches to Participatory Steering and Evaluation of Complex Adaptive Systems'. The upcoming funding will serve the development of an international network. The main activity will be to organize a highly interactive workshop for international participants that will take place nearby the University of Surrey in February 2019.
Michel Schilperoord will present at the International Open Innovation conference (www.openinnovationtmc.org/) in Naples on the 27th of June 2018. He will provide input on development of a second pilot study for simulating and learning about the emergence of start-ups. In the first pilot study, set in the context of Irish High-Potential Start-ups Programme and published in 2016, a suite of simulation experiments was developed for testing predictors and policy with respect to high-potential start-ups. The outcomes of these experiments not only provided proof of concept for the predictors, but also confirmed the rationale for the HPSU Programme. The second pilot study will re-examine the outcomes of these experiments in the context of China’s move to mass entrepreneurship, with focus on the evolution of Shanghai’s start-up ecosystem.
TISSS Lab Research Fellowship Programme
TISSS Lab is a new member of the „Open Labs Initiative“ of the European Social Simulation Association ESSA (http://www.essa.eu.org/open-labs-initiative/)
Visiting researchers are very welcome! Please see details at http://www.essa.eu.org/open-labs-initiative/#GE-Mainz Continue reading "Visiting Researchers"
Michel Schilperoord will present at the International PLATO Conference (https://www.plato.uni-mainz.de/) on the 25th of May 2018. Continue reading "Plato Conference 2018"
New research grant: internal university research funding scheme awards project on social impacts of Artificial Intelligence. Continue reading "New research grant"
