Date and meeting venue
6/7 February 2012
Room 5.7
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Faculty of Engineering
Viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna
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The E-Policy 2nd meeting is reserved to the project partners. No public participation is permitted.
The technical meeting (month 4) will cover the following topics:
1) The case study in the Regional Energy plan
2) Architecture requirements
3) Decision support system design: integration of simulation and optimization
4) Data collection for the regional energy policy
5) Dissemination activities, web site and brochure, conferences, presentation and workshops.
Abstract
The e-POLICY project presents a multi-disciplinary research effort whose goal is to support policy makers in their decision process across the engineering of a policy making life-cycle. The life-cycle integrates, in a unique way, global and individual perspectives on the decision process, bringing to the policy maker’s attention both global concerns (e.g., impacts, budget constraints and objectives), and individual concerns (i.e. opinions, reactions), giving guidance towards better policy implementation strategies. An innovative game theoretical approach guides the interaction and conflict management between these two levels. In addition, the e-POLICY project proposes the evaluation of the economical, societal and environmental impacts of policy at both the global and individual levels. Societal impacts are derived from data retrieved by e-participation and Web2.0 tools. Both policy maker and citizens are assisted in the decision-making and participation processes through visualization tools. From a technological perspective, leading-edge optimization and decision support techniques contribute to global policy making, while agent-based simulation tools will perform a social simulation at the individual level, with game theory being used to manage conflicts and regulate the interaction between the two levels. Subsidiary, but no less important, techniques will aid the decision-making process by using opinion-mining from e-participation derived data and advanced visualization tools.
The project proof of concept will be an open source decision support system where the above components are
implemented, integrated and evaluated with a realistic target: that of a real-world regional energy plan. One
of the key barriers to the progress of renewable energy projects is recognized as the planning and consenting
process. The e-POLICY project goes towards resolving this issue by aiding both processes.
WI-FI Access for the meeting
We are creating your temporary internet accounts in order to give you WI-FI access during the meeting (otherwise it will not be possible to use Internet). For security reasons, we kindly ask you to send us (by email or fax) a copy of you Passport or ID card.
Internet access system through the wrieless network of the Univeristy of Bologna:
Client configuration using Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7