Specific tools for environmental and social simulation

Course tittle: Specific tools for environmental and social simulation

Faculty: Cristina Montañola and Mari Paz Linares, Departament d’Estadística i Investigació Operativa, UPC.

Cristina Montañola Sales, MSc in Computer Science, is a PhD student at the Statistics and Operations Research Department in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech). She is currently doing her research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in large-scale social simulation. Her research interests include agent-based modeling, computer simulation, high-performance computing and computational social science.

Maripaz Linares Bachelor's degree in mathematics, M.S in Logistics Transport and Mobility and Ph.D. in Operations Research,. Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. Member of the PROMALS research group. She is working on projects related to dynamic models of traffic, on the development of simulation models and on the application of optimization to traffic and transport problems.

Course language: English.

Course schedule:
- July 16, 17, 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. 
- July 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Place: room PC2

Type of activity and class load: 15 hours classroom course.

Description:

Modeling social systems. System dynamics, microsimulation and agent-based simulation.

Defining agent-based social models with Netlogo. Large scale social simulation in distributed and parallel environments.

Trafic Simulation.

Macroscopic vs microscopic Simulation.

Mesoscopic Simulation.

Microscopic traffic simulation tool use for the resolution of transportation planning problems.