FuturICT
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing
Duration: 10/2013 - 2014
Funding: external pageEU FP7: Future and emerging technologies
Website: external pagewww.futurict.eu
We continue to work on the Project as our Research Initiative.
Description:
FuturlCT was a FET Flagship project initiative proposing to use collective, participatory research, integrated across the fields of ICT, the social sciences and complexity science, to design socio-inspired technology and develop a science of global, socially interactive systems. The aim of the initiative is to bring together, on a global level, big data, new modelling techniques and new forms of interaction, leading to a new understanding of society and its co-evolution with technology. It will place Europe at the forefront of a major scientific drive to understand, explore and manage our complex, connected world in a more sustainable and resilient manner.
The unifying goal of the FuturICT initiative is to integrate the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT), social sciences and complexity science, to develop a new kind of participatory science and technology that will help us to understand, explore and manage the complex, global, socially interactive systems that make up our world today, while at the same time paving the way for a new paradigm of ICT systems that will leverage socio-inspired self-organisation, self-regulation, and collective awareness.
FuturICT will bring together, on a global level, Big Data, new modelling techniques and new forms of interaction, leading to a new understanding of society and its co-evolution with technology. It will place Europe at the forefront of a major scientific drive to understand, explore and manage our complex, connected world in a sustainable and resilient manner.
Publications (until 2014)
Letters in Journals
- M. Schich, C. Song, Y. Y. Ahn, A. Mirsky, Martino, M., Barabási, A. L., & Helbing, D. (2014) external pageA network framework of cultural history. Science 345(6196), 558-562.
- D. Brockmann and D. Helbing (2013) external pageThe hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena. Science 342(6164), 1337–1342.
- D. Helbing (2013) external pageGlobally networked risks and how to respond. Nature 497, 51–59.
FuturICT Special Issue
- D. Helbing and A. Carbone, eds. (2012) external pageParticipatory science and computing for our complex world. EPJ Special Topics 214, 1-666.
- D. Helbing (2012) external pageIntroduction: The FuturICT knowledge accelerator towards a more resilient and sustainable future. EPJ Special Topics 214, 5–9.
- D. Helbing, S. Bishop, R. Conte, P. Lukowicz and J.B. McCarthy (2012) external pageFuturICT: Participatory computing to understand and manage our complex world in a more sustainable and resilient way. EPJ Special Topics 214, 11–39.
- D. Helbing (2012) external pageAccelerating scientific discovery by formulating grand scientific challenges. EPJ Special Topics 214, 41–48.
- F. Giannotti, D. Pedreschi, A. Pentland, P. Lukowicz, D. Kossmann, J. Crowley and D. Helbing (2012) external pageA planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness. EPJ Special Topics 214, 49–75.
- M. Paolucci, D. Kossman, R. Conte, P. Lukowicz, P. Argyrakis, A. Blandford, G. Bonelli, S. Anderson, S. de Freitas, B. Edmonds, N. Gilbert, M. Gross, J. Kohlhammer, P. Koumoutsakos, A. Krause, B.-O. Linnér, P. Slusallek, O. Sorkine, R.W. Sumner and D. Helbing (2008) external pageTowards a living earth simulator. EPJ Special Topics 214, 77–108.
- S. Buckingham Shum, K. Aberer, A. Schmidt, S. Bishop, P. Lukowicz, S. Anderson, Y. Charalabidis, J. Domingue, S. de Freitas, I. Dunwell, B. Edmonds, F. Grey, M. Haklay, M. Jelasity, A. Karpištšenko, J. Kohlhammer, J. Lewis, J. Pitt, R. Sumner and D. Helbing (2012) external pageTowards a global participatory platform - Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence. EPJ Special Topics 214, 109–152.
- J. van den Hoven, D. Helbing, D. Pedreschi, J. Domingo-Ferrer, F. Gianotti and M. Christen (2012) external pageFuturICT – The road towards ethical ICT. EPJ Special Topics 214, 153–181.
- F. van Harmelen, G. Kampis, K. Börner, P. van den Besselaar, E. Schultes, C. Goble, P. Groth, B. Mons, S. Anderson, S. Decker, C. Hayes, T. Buecheler and D. Helbing (2012) external pageTheoretical and technological building blocks for an innovation accelerator. EPJ Special Topics 214, 183–214.
- J. Johnson, S. Buckingham Shum, A. Willis, S. Bishop, T. Zamenopoulos, S. Swithenby, R. MacKay, Y. Merali, A. Lorincz, C. Costea, P. Bourgine, J. Louçã, A. Kapenieks, P. Kelley, S. Caird, J. Bromley, R. Deakin Crick, C. Goldspink, P. Collet, A. Carbone and D. Helbing external pageThe FuturICT education accelerator. EPJ Special Topics 214, 215–243.
- M. San Miguel, J.H. Johnson, J. Kertesz, K. Kaski, A. Díaz-Guilera, R.S. MacKay, V. Loreto, P. Érdi and D. Helbing (2012) external pageChallenges in complex systems science. EPJ Special Topics 214, 245–271.
- J. Doyne Farmer, M. Gallegati, C. Hommes, A. Kirman, P. Ormerod, S. Cincotti, A. Sanchez and D. Helbing (2012) external pageA complex systems approach to constructing better models for managing financial markets and the economy. EPJ Special Topics 214, 295–324.
- R. Conte, N. Gilbert, G. Bonelli, C. Cioffi-Revilla, G. Deffuant, J. Kertesz, V. Loreto, S. Moat, J.-P. Nadal, A. Sanchez, A. Nowak, A. Flache, M. San Miguel and D. Helbing (2012) external pageManifesto of computational social science. EPJ Special Topics 214, 325–346.
- L.-E. Cederman, R. Conte, D. Helbing, A. Nowak, F. Schweitzer and A. Vespignani (2012) external pageExploratory of society. EPJ Special Topics 214, 347–360.
- A. Ferscha, K. Farrahi, J. van denHoven, D. Hales, A. Nowak, P. Lukowicz and D. Helbing (2012) external pageSocio-inspired ICT - Towards a socially grounded society-ICT symbiosis. EPJ Special Topics 214, 401–434.
Articles in Journals
- D. Helbing, D. Brockmann, T. Chadefaux, K. Donnay, U. Blanke, O. Woolley-Meza, , M. Moussaid, A. Johansson, J. Krause, S. Schutte and M. Perc (2014) external pageSaving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute. Journal of Statistical Physics, 1-47.
- K. Trantopoulos, M. Schläpfer, D. Helbing. (2011). external pageToward Sustainability of complex urban systems through techno-social reality mining. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45(15), 6231 - 6232.
- D. Helbing and S. Balietti (2011) external pageHow to do agent-based simulations in the future: From modeling social mechanisms to emergent phenomena and interactive systems design. SFI Working Paper #11-06-024.
- D. Helbing and S. Balietti (2011) external pageFrom social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises. EPJ Special Topics 195, 3–68.
- D. Helbing and S. Balietti (2011) external pageFrom social simulation to integrative system design. EPJ Special Topics 195, 69–100.
- D. Helbing and S. Balietti (2011) external pageHow to create an innovation accelerator. EPJ Special Topics 195, 101–136.
- D. Helbing, S. Balietti, S. Bishop and P. Lukowicz (2011) external pageUnderstanding, creating, and managing complex techno-socio-economic systems: Challenges and perspectives. EPJ Special Topics 195, 165–186.
- R. Conte, N. Gilbert, G. Bonelli, and D. Helbing (2011) FuturICT and social sciences: Big data, big thinking. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 40(5), 412–413.
Contributions to Books
- D. Helbing (2012) external pageNew ways to promote sustainability and social well-being in a complex, strongly interdependent world: The FuturICT approach. Pages 55–60 in: P. Ball (2012) Why Society is a Complex Matter (Springer, Berlin).