Professor Yamir Moreno
Director of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Zaragoza, Spain
What can Data tell us about the Physics of Humans?
Abstract
The modeling of social systems has recently attracted renewed attention as a result of the Data Science revolution. Ideally, we would like to develop tools and methods that allow in-silico simulations of real-world societal scenarios and systems. To this end, it is imperative to
inform models with as many details as possible about human behavior at various scales. This constitutes nowadays a challenge due to our current limited knowledge of the laws describing most human behavioral responses. To address the previous challenges, we need to extract behavioral rules from (either small or big) data. In this talk, we describe recent advances in this direction by analyzing and discussing several experiments involving humans -in some cases a few, in others hundreds- playing a diversity of social dilemmas. We also identify the experimental (data) and theoretical challenges in the study of socio-technical systems and propose a way to tackle such problems.