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FuturICT 2.0 General Assembly in Tallinn
The FuturICT 2.0 General Assembly (August 28, 2018) was an engaging and thought-provoking reflection on how to manage complex, global, socially interactive systems.  Over the course of two sessions, 12 presentations, and some pertinent questions, participants gained an invaluable insight into how emerging smart technologies can be used to address some of the most pressing issues…
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From Quantum Cognition to Quantum Opinion Dynamics
In Quantum Cognition, the mathematical formalism of Quantum Mechanics is applied to ideas. Surprisingly, this approach models idea manipulation better than, for example, fuzzy logic. However, it has been applied to individual minds up to now. In a conference paper, Daniele Vilone and Mario Paolucci present the quantum extension of one of the simplest opinion…
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Publication: Peer Review or Reputation?
Scientific publications are produced at a staggering pace. Researchers select what to read also thanks to journal prestige and paper reputation, which is conveyed by social media, and amounts to a virtual reputation system. In this paper, Francesco Grimaldo, Mario Paolucci and Jordi Sabater-Mir compare by simulation the performance of reputation and peer review. They…
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Publication: IOT Privacy-Utility Trade-Offs
The pervasiveness of the Internet of Things results in vast volumes of personal data being generated by smart devices such as smart phones, wearables and other embedded sensors. This data is often transferred to centralised computational systems for processing. This paper by Thomas Asikis and Evangelos Pournaras examines the inherent trade-off between the utility of…
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The Project
FuturICT 2.0 conducts large-scale experiments and simulations for the second generation of FuturICT. It is an international European Project funded under the FLAG-ERA Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2016. It started in February 2017 and will have a duration of three years. The Challenge To manage scarce resources and support endangered people and communities, powerful global information…
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Finance 4.0 Concept
Finance 4.0 Concept - WP3 Interim Report (M12) February 2018 This report discusses the "Finance 4.0" concept, a multi-dimensional incentive system to manage complex systems and promote a circular sharing economy to create a high quality of life for more people with fewer resources. Marcus M. Dapp, Stefan Klauser, and Mark Ballandies Download the report…
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Publication: Participation and Privacy Perception in Virtual Environments: The Role of Sense of Community, Culture and Gender between Italian and Turkish
Publication: Participation and Privacy Perception in Virtual Environments: The Role of Sense of Community, Culture and Gender between Italian and Turkish This research examines the relationship between our sense of community, participation and privacy in the online era. Using data from survey respondents in Italy and Turkey, the paper explores whether these perceptions differ according…
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Calls for Projects
STIMUL PROJECTS To enlarge the communities of social, computational and complexity scientists, FuturICT 2.0 is adopting the instrument of jointly-supervised STIMUL (Short TIme MULti-disciplinary) projects. A number of small STIMUL calls for short multi-disciplinary projects (3 to 9 months) has been launched, starting from October 2017. STIMUL projects requirements 1)The submitted project should involve: A junior…
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Partners
The FuturICT 2.0 consortium consists of 12 partners with different background and expertise belonging to 7 European Countries: Italy, Switzerland, France, Latvia, Romania, Belgium, Estonia. The project is coordinated by Mario Paolucci of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) of Italy.     [caption id="attachment_199" align="alignleft" width="150"] Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of…
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About FuturICT 2.0

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Large scale experiments and simulations for the second generation of FuturICT

FuturICT 2.0 is an international European Project funded under the FLAG-ERA Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2016. It started in February 2017 and will have a duration of three years.

THE CHALLENGE

To manage scarce resources and support endangered people and communities, powerful global information systems need to be built, based on big data and artificial intelligence.

Digitization implies a massive structural change in the global economy, which will cause significant levels of unemployment unless economic systems are reformed. The potential misuse of Big Data and AI technologies cannot be ignored as it might generate a creeping authoritarianism and gradual erosion of the privacy rights and civil liberties of individuals. We need to make significant progress towards understanding and managing complex, global, interactive systems.

OUR GOAL

FuturICT 2.0 will bring together a large array of the best academic minds in fields such as social science, complexity science and computational science.

With jointly-supervised research projects, traditional workshops, exchanges, and meetings, the project will bring together the latest, bleeding-edge knowledge in areas such as big data, artificial intelligence, agent-based simulation, the Internet of Things, blockchain technology, and complexity science. This interdisciplinary approach will lay the theoretical and organizational foundations for the digital economy of the future.

HOW WE PURSUE IT

FuturICT 2.0 will promote disruptive innovation to tackle the main challenges of modern society towards a more resilient and adaptive society. We will harness emerging knowledge in order to address urgent global challenges. How?

  • Using disruptive innovation to tackle existential threats such as resource shortages, climate change, economic dislocation and technology-driven unemployment
  • Developing a new, nuanced and multifaceted financial incentive system to promote a circular, sharing economy and achieve social goals collaboratively
  • Adopting a decentralized and collaborative approach, involving methods such community-based decision-making, crowdsourcing and citizen science, to adapt to social needs and address unforeseen societal challenges

Smart technology + smart citizens = the economy of the future

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