Conference on Complex Systems CCS2024 Satellite Meeting
Complex Systems for the Most Vulnerable - 6th Edition
University of Exeter, 2 September 2024
Data and data science are becoming increasingly crucial to tackling the societal challenges that climate change, increasing inequalities, geopolitical upheaval, etc., are creating. The need for a new scientific approach to social innovation, international development, and humanitarian response has never been clearer. In this context, the role that Complex Systems can play is central and crucial. They can provide a robust theoretical framework to address issues such as replicability and transferability of empirical and analytical results to vulnerable contexts, as well as explainability of models and challenges of data biases.
This satellite workshop has the goal of reviewing the potential 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):
Five successful editions already took place at CCS2022 in Palma de Mallorca (https://cs4v22.weebly.com/), CCS2021 in Lyon (https://cs4v21.weebly.com/), CCS2020 Online (https://cs4v20.weebly.com/), CCS2019 in Singapore (https://cs4v19.weebly.com/) and CCS2018 in Thessaloniki (https://cs4v18.weebly.com/).
This satellite workshop has the goal of reviewing the potential 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):
- Novel methods for identifying and measuring vulnerabilities (poverty, lack of information, exposure to conflict, resilience to natural disasters, epidemic risk, bullying, discrimination, etc.).
- Data availability: novel open data sets and studies on representativeness and bias, algorithmic privacy, transparency, and fairness in the context of social good applications.
- Replicability and transferability of models in vulnerable and data-poor contexts; model interpretability in support of better decision making.
- From data to policy making: operationalized research for crafting sustainable solutions that can be globally scaled.
- Gender bias and data gaps
- Health in developing countries
- Migrations and xenophobia
- Education
- Unemployment
- Inequalities and poverty reduction
- Environment and sustainability
Five successful editions already took place at CCS2022 in Palma de Mallorca (https://cs4v22.weebly.com/), CCS2021 in Lyon (https://cs4v21.weebly.com/), CCS2020 Online (https://cs4v20.weebly.com/), CCS2019 in Singapore (https://cs4v19.weebly.com/) and CCS2018 in Thessaloniki (https://cs4v18.weebly.com/).
