Call for participation and contribution: Modelling Values in Agents,
Technologies & Institutions @ SimulationFest
Dear colleagues,
Addressing new challenges in socio-technical systems requires a critical
inquiry into behaviour-related concepts like values, beliefs, and norms. On
Thursday 18th March, 1:30-4:30 PM (CET Time), we will have a session on
Modelling Values in Agents, Technologies and Institutions which goal is to
bring together international researchers that are experimenting with
qualitative concepts (e.g., values, norms, beliefs) in their agent-based
models. This session facilitates new cross-disciplinary ABM research pathways
by learning from each others experiences and challenges of implementing
quantitative concepts like values in the modelling practice. As a concept in
ABM practice, value only recently started to get deserved attention despite
playing a core role in a decision making process that informs agents actions.
Complex socio-technical challenges of the energy transition, climate change,
and, in particular, the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic triggered a series of ABM
research that adopts the concept of value from different domains like ethics,
psychology, and anthropology. Insights into values are particularly essential
when researching new technologies and policies impacts and the agents
responses to the implementation of these. The 3-hour session will explore such
concepts to understand better agents behaviours regarding technologies and
institutions and a potential impact on the models robustness, illustrative,
explanatory, and predictive power.
We aim to have fruitful discussions in four sessions, focusing on:
- cognitive architectures of agents and the role of values and beliefs
- values and norms in socio-technical systems
- values in institutions and policy analysis
- operationalization of the qualitative concepts in ABM practice
All interested researchers are welcome to join our session. We also have a
room for a max of 5 presentations (10 min) related to one of the listed
topics. If you wish to present your work, please submit an abstract for a
short presentation with the title modelling values at
a.melnyk@tudelft.nl before March 1, 2021.
Note: Please, remember to register for the event through the main web-page:
https://essa.wildapricot.org/event-4161068
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Kind regards,
Amineh, Bruce and Anna
Anna Melnyk
TU Delft
PhD Candidate
Ethics/Philosophy of Technology | Technology, Policy & Management
Building 31, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands
a.melnyk@tudelft.nl
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