851-0467-00L  From Traffic Modeling to Smart Cities and Digital Democracies

SemesterHerbstsemester 2021
DozierendeD. Helbing, S. Mahajan
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch
KommentarNumber of participants limited to 50.


KurzbeschreibungThis seminar will present speakers who discuss the challenges and opportunities arisinig for our cities and societies with the digital revolution. Besides discussing questions of automation using Big Data, AI and other digital technologies, we will reflect on the question of how democracy could be digitally upgraded to promote innovation, sustainability, and resilience.
LernzielTo collect credit points, students will have to give a 30-40 minute presentation in the seminar, after which the presentation will be
discussed. The presentation will be graded.
InhaltThis seminar will present speakers who discuss the challenges and opportunities arisinig for our cities and societies with the digital revolution. Besides discussing questions of automation using Big Data, AI and other digital technologies, we will also reflect on the question of how democracy could be digitally upgraded, and how citizen participation could contribute to innovation, sustainability, resilience, and quality of life. This includes questions around collective intelligence and digital platforms that support creativity, engagement, coordination and cooperation.
LiteraturMartin Treiber and Arne Kesting
Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation
Link

Dirk Helbing
Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems
Reviews of Modern Physics 73, 1067
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.73.1067

Dirk Helbing
An Analytical Theory of Traffic Flow (collection of papers)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261629187

Michael Batty, Kay Axhausen et al.
Smart cities of the future

Books by Michael Batty
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01703-3

How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/22/9020

Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686.full

Optimal incentives for collective intelligence
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/20/5077.short

Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Link

Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Mind-Collective-Intelligence-Change/dp/0691170797/

Programming Collective Intelligence
Link

Urban architecture as connective-collective intelligence. Which spaces of interaction?
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/7/2928

Build digital democracy
https://www.nature.com/news/society-build-digital-democracy-1.18690

How to make democracy work in the digital age
Link

Digital Democracy: How to make it work?
http://futurict.blogspot.com/2020/06/digital-democracy-how-to-make-it-work.html

Proof of witness presence: Blockchain consensus for augmented democracy in smart cities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743731520303282

Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination
Link

Decentralized Collective Learning for Self-managed Sharing Economies
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3277668

Further literature will be recommended in the lectures.
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Verfahren und Technologiengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengeprüft
Entscheidungsfindunggefördert
Medien und digitale Technologiengeprüft
Problemlösunggeprüft
Projektmanagementgefördert
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgeprüft
Kooperation und Teamarbeitgefördert
Kundenorientierunggefördert
Menschenführung und Verantwortunggefördert
Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahmegefördert
Sensibilität für Vielfalt gefördert
Verhandlunggefördert
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgefördert
Kreatives Denkengeprüft
Kritisches Denkengeprüft
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgeprüft
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion geprüft
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement geprüft