Tokyo January 12, 2011 From Multidisciplinary to Multicultural: the Challenge of Complex Systems

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1 Tokyo January 12, 2011 From Multidisciplinary to Multicultural: the Challenge of Complex Systems Stefania Bandini

2 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences Computer Science Full Professor PhD School in Computer Science Director Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center Director Advanced Computational Models in Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation Complex Systems Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems Epistemology of Computer Science

3 MD in Philosophy Logics and Philosophy of Science PhD in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence breathing pluridisciplinary challenges

4 RESEARCH STRATEGY INTERDISCIPLINARY Synthesis of two or more disciplines, establishing a new level integration of knowledge MULTIDISCIPLINARY Process for providing a juxtaposition of disciplines that is additive, not integrative TRANSDISCIPLINARY Approach that occasions the emergence of new data and new interactions from out of the encounter between disciplines, offering a new vision of nature and reality Choi, Pak Med Clin Exp, vol 29, n 6, Dec 2006

5 MULTIDISCIPLINARITY and the ghost of Galileo Galilei

6 INDUCTIVE METHOD DEDUCTIVE METHOD FORM CONCEPTS ARRANGE PROPOSITIONS (develop new model) THEORIES DEDUCE CONSEQUENCES MAKE PREDICTIONS (literature review) EMPIRICAL GENERALIZATIONS TESTS HYPOTESES INDUCING GENERALIZATIONS ESTIMATING PARAMETERS (data analysis) OBSERVATIONS DRAW SAMPLES DEVISE MEASURING TOOLS (select criteria & case studies)

7 MULTICULTURALITY and the ghost of VACUITY

8 MULTICULTURAL TEAM MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH MULTICULTURAL DOMAIN

9 The aim of the research project is to introduce agent based modeling and simulation as an effective approach to multidisciplinary investigation of complex dynamics that characterize aggregations of pedestrians and crowds. The main focus is on how this approach can fruitfully be adopted to investigate meaningful relationships between anthropological proxemic constraints, cultural characteristics and crowd dynamics, and how the presence of heterogeneous groups influence emergent dynamics in Hajj and Omrah.

10 MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH The Saudi Arabia Kingdom assigns the highest priorities to the needed solutions and has committed its resources to developing the most effective of infrastructure and services programs for Hajj challenges.

11 MULTICULTURAL TEAM MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM ANTRHROPOLOGY ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING COMPLEXITY SCIENCES COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCED SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY MATHEMATICS and STATISTICS PHYSICS PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIAL SCIENCE TEOLOGY

12 MULTICULTURAL DOMAIN MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOMAIN HAJJ Annual Pilgrimage to Makkah: one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world (more than coming from about 150 Countries) Fifth Pillar of Islam: religious duty that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able bodied Muslim who can afford to do so

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14 Rapid rail transit system to operate in combination with bus transport between Holy Sites, reducing the number of buses and congestion during the Hajj, connecting Arafat, Muzdalifah and Mina and replacing about 4000 buses. MASHAER LINE

15 MASHAER LINE STATION: ARAFAT

16 CRYSTALS PROJECT The aim of the research project is to introduce agent based modeling and simulation as an effective approach to multidisciplinary investigation of complex dynamics that characterize aggregations of pedestrians and crowds. The main focus is on how this approach can fruitfully be adopted to investigate meaningful relationships between anthropological proxemic constraints, cultural characteristics and crowd dynamics, and how the presence of heterogeneous groups influence emergent dynamics in Hajj and Omrah. agent based modeling and simulation complex dynamics aggregations of pedestrians and crowds anthropological proxemic constraints cultural characteristics crowd dynamics heterogeneous groups emergent dynamics in Hajj and Omrah

17 CRYSTALS PROJECT ANTRHROPOLOGY ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING COMPLEXITY SCIENCES COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCED SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY MATHEMATICS and STATISTICS PHYSICS PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIAL SCIENCE agent based modeling and simulation complex dynamics aggregations of pedestrians and crowds anthropological proxemic constraints cultural characteristics crowd dynamics heterogeneous groups emergent dynamics in Hajj and Omrah TEOLOGY

18 Proxemic study of set measurable culturally dependent distances between people as they interact E. T. Hall, 1966 study of set measurable distances between people as they interact social anthropological issue set of simple local distributed rules agent based modeling approach

19 Proxemic and Groups There is nothing man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. All the distance which men place around themselves are dictated by this fear. E. Canetti, 1966

20 Proxemic Dynamics of Crowds & Groups

21 ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 3D VISUALIZATION & DESIGN AutoCAD & Blender integration CROWD SIMULATION Cellular Automata & Agent based Systems

22 ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM

23 WORKING METHOD experiments & calibration proxemic distances agent based simulation 3D visualization case study data & expertise

24 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

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26 SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY IN THE AGEING SOCIETY ALIAS ALta formazione e Internazionalizzazione nell Ageing Society High Education and Internationalization in the Ageing Society

27 ALIA S Creation of scientists, managers and decision makers operating in the field of Ageing Society FOUR ACTIONS - 58 months Action 1 funding of 5 PhD grants in Computer Science Action 2 organization of 3 Summer Schools Action 3 organization of two International Workshops Action 4 mobility programs for students and teachers to/from foreign Universities and Research Centers

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