The Watch your agent workshop allows the public, guided by experts from IRPPS and LABBS-ISTC of the CNR, to discover agent-based modeling (ABM) techniques by interacting with a virtual social phenomena simulation system (NetLogo).
The public is engaged in various topics: from urban traffic and segregation to the dynamics of public opinion polarization during emergencies.
The workshop was designed by Fabrizio Pecoraro and Rocco Paolillo (IRPPS), and Daniele Vilone and Eva Vriens (LABBS-ISTC), with the support of the IRPPS Communication Office (Azzurra Malgieri, Monia Torre), and was presented for the first time during the 2023 Futuro Remoto Festival.
Social sciences increasingly intersect their inquiries with tools and methodologies from computational sciences, such as Agent-Based Modeling (ABM).
ABM allows for the study of collective phenomena by computer-simulating the dynamics of agents (individuals with more or less simple characteristics who act and react) and the conditions of the system in which they interact.
In this way, the collective or social effects of agent actions and interactions can be studied; effects that, according to the complexity paradigm, can be greater than the sum of their parts.
