Promotional poster for the ePolicy project
"ePolicy" is a European FP7-ICT-7-5.6 Project whose aim is to assist the policy maker when defining policies to assess whether they meet the requirements of both the policy maker and the domain expert before they are actually enforced. In order to deliver such result, we model the features of the territory, we consider the feedback from citizens, we build appropriate incentive schemas and we test our results by means of a social simulator. Our case study is the energy plan for the Emilia Romagna region in Italy and we have an advanced visualisation layer to present the results and help the user to understand them. This poster presents the key aspects of the project: from the idea to the implementation, showcasing the main components and the visualisation. For more information on the project, visit the web site: http://www.epolicy-project.eu
Promotional poster for the ePolicy project
- 1. Engineering the Policy-Making Life Cycle h"p://www.epolicy-足project.eu THE ePolicy G L O B A L OPTIMIZER MODEL ≒ Aim: to support policy makers in coming to decisions ≒ Produces alternative plans ≒ Global and individual perspectives merged ≒ Multi criteria optimization ≒ Strategic Environmental Assessment ≒ Multi-disciplinary approach ≒ Energy plan as a case study INCENTIVE ≒ Methodology to move to other policy domains DESIGN ≒ Efficient budget allocation for incentives IMPLEMENTING T H E e P o l i c y OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS AND CONSTRAINTS BY POLICY MAKER CONFIGURATION BY ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT FEEDBACK BY CITIZENS Global Op/miser M O D E L Opinion Mining OPINION PER TOPIC S O C I A L SIMULATOR POLICY TARGET ENERGY MONEY 20M ≒ Implemented as web services to support: Environmental experts Incen/ve Design Policy makers ≒ The global optimizer provides alternative scenarios ≒ Agent based modelling ≒ Simulates social reaction to policy instruments PARTITION MONEY IN INCENTIVE MECHANISMS INCENTIVE POLICY ≒ The incentive design identifies policy instruments for achieving the objectives of the plan ≒ The social simulator evaluates the impact of the policy instrument on the society ≒ Encouraging participants to be truthful ≒ Individual perspective Social Simulator O P I N I O N MINING 10M (opOonal) GROUP INDIVIDUAL INCENTIVE MECHANISMS Quality MW Opinions ≒ Digs blogs and fora ≒ The opinion mining component identifies the attitudes that people express t environment t 1 policy per instrument t trends t ≒ Retrieves relevant text ≒ Extracts opinions V I S U A L I S AT I O N D E TA I L S ABSTRACTION The visualisation meets two main needs by: ≒ providing intuitive access to ePolicys analytical models ≒ communicating abstract and concrete ideas on the policy area Three visual interfaces will be implemented: ≒ the global optimiser ≒ the incentive design and social simulator ≒ the opinion mining component The visualisation modules are: ≒ designed with different abstraction levels in mind ≒ addressing several roles (modelling experts, policy makers) ≒ adaptable to alternative or similar cases