Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Dino Pedreschi, Dip. di Informatica
CIMPLEX proposes visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influence disease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advances we will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methods for Big Data analysis. In particular the project will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling one aspect of the problem at a time. It will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation, the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemic risk.
CIMPLEX will also develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definition of new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response researchers will work to close the loop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualization and interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. The project will cast the fundamental advances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and useful beyond the project.
As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, CIMPLEX will implement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to a set of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collection frameworks.
Coordinator
DFKI, THE GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Germany)
Other participants
- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (Italy)
- BRUNO KESSLER FOUNDATION (Italy)
- INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INTERCHANGE (Italy)
- EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH (Switzerland)
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (Hungary)
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LONDON (United Kingdom)
- UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART (Germany)
Start date 01/01/2015
End date 31/12/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 4.206.875 €
Project funding 3.450.625 €
Unipi quota 170.000 €
Call title H2020-FETPROACT-2014
Unipi role Third part
Project website: www.cimplex-project.eu