Engineering the Policy-Making Life Cycle

VISUALISATION

The visualisation meets two main needs by: •  providing intuitive access to ePolicy’s 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

D E TA I L S

The visualisation modules are: •  designed with different abstraction levels in mind

•  addressing several roles (modelling experts, policy makers) •  adaptable to alternative or similar cases

A B S T R A C T I O N

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O P I N I O N M I N I N G

•  Digs blogs and fora •  Retrieves relevant text •  Extracts opinions

•  Produces alternative plans •  Strategic Environmental Assessment •  Multi criteria optimization

G L O B A L OPTIMIZER

•  Agent based modelling •  Simulates social reaction to policy

instruments •  Individual perspective

S O C I A L SIMULATOR

•  Efficient budget allocation for incentives

•  Encouraging participants to be truthful

I N C E N T I V E D E S I G N

•  Aim: to support policy makers in coming to decisions

•  Global and individual perspectives merged •  Multi-disciplinary approach •  Energy plan as a case study •  Methodology to move to other policy

domains

T H E e P o l i c y M O D E L

Social  Simulator  

Incen/ve  Design  

PARTITION  MONEY  IN    INCENTIVE    

MECHANISMS  

INCENTIVE    POLICY  

€  

t  1  policy  per  instrument  

MW  

t  trends  

Opinions  

t  environment  

Quality  

t  

Opinion  Mining  

Global    Op/miser  

10M  €  (opOonal)  GROUP  INDIVIDUAL  INCENTIVE  MECHANISMS  

POLICY  TARGET  ENERGY  MONEY  

                                                 20M  €  

OPINION  PER  TOPIC  

OBJECTIVE  FUNCTIONS    AND  CONSTRAINTS  BY    

POLICY  MAKER  

FEEDBACK  BY    CITIZENS  

CONFIGURATION  BY    ENVIRONMENTAL  EXPERT  IMPLEMENTING

T H E e P o l i c y M O D E L

•  Implemented as web services to support:

– Environmental experts

– Policy makers

•  The global optimizer provides alternative scenarios

•  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

•  The opinion mining component identifies the attitudes that people express