ePolicy - Policy Modelling with a Social Twist

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• Tina Balke, Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey
• Wednesday 19 June 2013, 11:00-12:00
• Dennis Gabor Seminar Room (611), EEE Department.

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This talk presents first results from the ePolicy project. The ePolicy project aim is to support policy makers in their decision process by merging and integrating the global and individual perspectives on the policy at hand. The talk will focus on the overall architectural idea of the ePolicy project and then look at the individual level implementation in more details. A prototype of an agent-based model which is used to assess the impact of different policy instruments (tax exemption, feed-in-tariffs, investment grants,...) on the adoption of photovoltaic panels in the Emilia Romagna region will be presented. Looking at results from both the individual and global level modelling, a comparison of the results will be presented resulting in a discussion how the models can benefit from one another.

Presenter bio:

Tina Balke is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey where she is working on the EU-funded project ePolicy (Engineering the POlicy-making LIfe CYcle). Within this project she focusses on developing agent-based social simulation models that analyse the impact of different policy instruments on the adoption of environmental-friendly behaviour.

In addition to her position in Surrey, she hold two Visiting Research Fellowships, one at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bath and one at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. At these positions she is working on using logic programming for representing and reasoning about policies and norms. In her current research she tries to combine the advantages of both of these modelling notions in order to analyse the impact of different policy instruments. One particular interest of hers is the analysis of the social and economic aspects of compliance.

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