Co-evolution of Intelligent Socio-technical Systems: Modelling and Applications in Large Scale Emergency and Transport Domains

✍ Scribed by Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Paul Lukowicz (auth.), Evangelia Mitleton-Kelly (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.e. smart (technical) environments, which will eventually play the same active role in communication as the human players, leading to a co-evolution in all domains where real-time communication is essential.
This topical volume, based on the findings of the Socionical European research project, gives equal attention to two highly relevant domains of applications: transport, specifically traffic, dynamics from the viewpoint of a socio-technical interaction and evacuation scenarios for large-scale emergency situations.
Care was taken to investigate as much as possible the limits of scalability and to combine the modeling using complex systems science approaches with relevant data analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The SOCIONICAL FP7 Project and an Outline of the Volume....Pages 3-18
Enhancing Crowd Evacuation and Traffic Management Through AmI Technologies: A Review of the Literature....Pages 19-41
The Concept of ‘Co-evolution’ and Its Application in the Social Sciences: A Review of the Literature....Pages 43-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Using Mobile Technology and a Participatory Sensing Approach for Crowd Monitoring and Management During Large-Scale Mass Gatherings....Pages 61-77
Agent-Based Modelling of Social Emotional Decision Making in Emergency Situations....Pages 79-117
Designing Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Empirically Grounded Simulations as Tools for Experience-Based Design Space Explorations....Pages 119-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Enhancing Future Mass ICT with Social Capabilities....Pages 141-184
Emerging Phenomena During Driving Interactions....Pages 185-217
Effective Assessment of AmI Intervention in Traffic Through Quantitative Measures....Pages 219-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
City Scale Evacuation: A High-Performance Multi-agent Simulation Framework....Pages 239-293

✦ Subjects

Complexity;Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences;Methodology of the Social Sciences;Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models;Automotive Engineering