Conference on Complex Systems CCS2021 Satellite Meeting
Complex Systems for the Most Vulnerable - 4th Edition
Lyon, 28 October 2021
Data and data science are becoming more and more crucial to meeting the societal challenges that climate change, ever increasing inequalities, geopolitical upheaval etc are creating. The need for a new scientific approach to social innovation, international development and humanitarian aid has never been clearer. In this context, the role that Complex Systems can play is central and crucial. On one hand, they can provide a robust theoretical framework to address issues such as replicability and transferability of work with a focus on vulnerable contexts, as well as explainability of models and challenges of data biases. On the other hand, the applied nature of several branches of Complex Systems can help in identifying the ideal areas of applications (e.g. epidemics) that can result in the highest scientific impact.
This Workshop has the goal of reviewing the potential effective contributions that Complex Systems can have on creating public value and producing public policy practices that can be applied in vulnerable contexts. It aims both at showcasing the most relevant work produced by the Complex Systems community in this area, and at focusing the attention of this scientific community on the pressing issues that affect the most vulnerable populations.
Topics of interest will be (but are not limited to):
Areas of applications can be (but are not limited to):
The first 3 editions of the satellite took place at CCS18 in Thessaloniki (https://cs4v18.weebly.com/) CCS19 in Singapore (https://cs4v19.weebly.com/) and CCS20 (https://cs4v20.weebly.com/).
This Workshop has the goal of reviewing the potential effective contributions that Complex Systems can have on creating public value and producing public policy practices that can be applied in vulnerable contexts. It aims both at showcasing the most relevant work produced by the Complex Systems community in this area, and at focusing the attention of this scientific community on the pressing issues that affect the most vulnerable populations.
Topics of interest will be (but are not limited to):
- Replicability and transferability of models in vulnerable and data-poor contexts
- Data representativeness and bias and algorithmic privacy, transparency and fairness in the context of social good applications
- Models interpretability in support of better decision making
- Complex systems applied to impact measurement of social good programs
- Emergence and dynamics of vulnerability and inequalities (e.g. tipping points for poverty; scaling dynamics; second order effects...)
- Effects of inequalities and vulnerabilities in the response to health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic
Areas of applications can be (but are not limited to):
- Gender bias and data gaps
- Health in developing countries
- Migrations and xenophobia
- Education
- Unemployment
- Inequalities and poverty reduction
- Environment and sustainability
The first 3 editions of the satellite took place at CCS18 in Thessaloniki (https://cs4v18.weebly.com/) CCS19 in Singapore (https://cs4v19.weebly.com/) and CCS20 (https://cs4v20.weebly.com/).
