Social and Socio-technical Systems

We draw on our expertise in the modeling of social and socio-technical complex systems with the aim of expanding our fundamental understanding of collective effects in social systems, and of deploying digital twin technologies for realistic data-driven social simulations and its interplay with critical infrastructures. IFISC researchers have been investigating, among others: models of opinion dynamics, including non-linear interactions and aging; the relation between mobility efficiency and quality of life in cities; migration and integration of migrant communities in cities, using Big Data from ICT and online social network; understanding structure and competition processes between languages and cultural traits; or monitoring and modeling the dynamics of social networks.  

When considering the interplay between society and infrastructures, methodologies to increase the stability and resilience of the power grid subject to demand fluctuations and analyzing the robustness of renewable-energy power grids has been a topic of interest. Air transportation has been analyzed focusing on the dynamics of delays from an information processing and macro-scale perspective, identifying correlation and causality relationships. 


Researchers

  • Pere Colet

    Pere Colet

  • Ernesto Estrada

    Ernesto Estrada

  • Juan Fernández Gracia

    Juan Fernández Gracia

  • Tobias Galla

    Tobias Galla

  • Emilio Hernández-García

    Emilio Hernández-García

  • Lucas Lacasa

    Lucas Lacasa

  • Víctor M. Eguíluz

    Víctor M. Eguíluz

  • Jose Javier Ramasco

    Jose Javier Ramasco

  • Maxi San Miguel

    Maxi San Miguel

  • David Sánchez

    David Sánchez

  • Raúl Toral

    Raúl Toral

  • Massimiliano Zanin

    Massimiliano Zanin

  • Konstantin Klemm

    Konstantin Klemm

  • Sandro Meloni

    Sandro Meloni

Recent and ongoing Research projects

ARCTIC

Air Transport as Information and Computation

P.I.: Massimiliano Zanin
This project is an ERC Starting Grant of panel SH2, "Institutions, Values, Environment and Space". Air transport has by and large been studied as a transportation process, in which different elements, e.g. ...

VPP4ISLANDS

Virtual Power Plant for Interoperable and Smart isLANDS

P.I.: Pere Colet
VPP4Islands aims to facilitate the integration of renewable systems, accelerate the transition towards smart and green energy and help Islands to exploit energy efficiency potential and innovative storage approaches, foster the active ...

RE-TE

Regional Economy / Travel Expectations

P.I.: Massimiliano Zanin
The assessment of the economic health of economies around the world has historically been based on reports prepared by multiple public and private institutions – from banks to governments. These describe how ...

SIESTA

Secure Interactive Environments for SensiTive data Analytics

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco
The FAIR principles provide a framework for enabling proper access and reusability of scientific data, and implementing them is a key goal of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). However, providing access ...

Hybrid

New hybrid methods to study and forecast flight delay propagation

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco, Massimiliano Zanin
Hybrid is a proposal for carrying out a PhD research within the Engage2 project associated to SESAR. This is a cascade funding structure in which the SESAR Horizon Europe program with the ...

OLGRA

Operadores Laplacianos en grafos y redes con repulsores/atractores y dinámicas relacionadas

P.I.: Ernesto Estrada
El uso de grafos está ampliamente extendido como una herramienta matemática para el estudio de diversos sistemas. En Físicas estos son usados en modelos electrónicos de sistemas conjugados, en sistemas de spines, ...

Next4Mob

Next Generation Tools for advanced mobility solutions

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco
Cities and metropolitan areas must confront the challenges of rapidly increasing urbanization and mobility needs, including the emergence of new transport solutions (e.g., individual electric devices, shared transport, mobility-as-a- services applications, etc.). ...

APASOS

A Physics approach to sociotechnical systems: from theory to data analysis.

P.I.: Tobias Galla, Sandro Meloni, Maxi San Miguel, Raúl Toral
APASOS objective is to use mathematical and computational methods combined with data and physics thinking to model complex socio-technical systems. APASOS is organized into two workpackages (WP). WP 1 focuses on models ...

MdM-IFISC-2

Maria de Maeztu 2023-2026

P.I.: Ernesto Estrada, Ingo Fischer, Emilio Hernández-García, Rosa Lopez, Claudio Mirasso, Jose Javier Ramasco, Raúl Toral, Roberta Zambrini
After 15 years of its existence, IFISC can point to a proven track record of impactful research. The previous 2018-2022 MdM award has significantly enhanced the institute's capabilities, as demonstrated by an ...

SCS

Sensing Complex Systems

P.I.: Lucas Lacasa
La reciente incorporación del Dr. Lucas Lacasa al IFISC abre la posibilidad de consolidar líneas de investigación relevantes como son el desarrollo de la teoría dinámica de redes y el análisis de ...

FACE

FAIR Computational Epidemiology

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco
Project to build a data-driven simulation platform associated to the PTI Salud Global of CSIC and funding through recovery funds EUNextGeneration.

CAFECONMIEL

Corpus Automático y Fenómenos de Contacto en Mallorca: Inteligencia, Entrenamiento y Lengua

P.I.: David Sánchez
El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo avanzar en el conocimiento de la variedad de español en contacto con el catalán en Mallorca mediante la creación de un macrocorpus multiformato y la aplicación ...

ICOOP22059

Analysis of stability and resilience of Cameroon's power grid on the incorporation of renewable energy sources

P.I.: Pere Colet
Stable operation of the electric power grid is based on several control methods and suitable management that includes demand forecasting, technical maintenance, generation and transmission planning, etc. The grid operator is the ...

EUR2J

De l'Euro al Joule

P.I.: Raúl Toral
The success of the energy transition process is based on a transformation of the social mindset (FROM THE EURO TO THE JOULE), which places the value of the economy and energy efficiency ...

Salud Global

Salud Global

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco
CSIC PTI (Interdisciplinar Platform) to foment the scientific collaborations between CSIC groups/institutes and industrial partners in the ambit of one health.

AIHUB

AIHUB

P.I.: Jose Javier Ramasco
HUB CSIC for fomenting the research and services on Artificial Intelligence.

Recent Publications

Echo chamber effects in signed networks

Vendeville, Antoine; Diaz-Diaz, Fernando
Submitted (2025)

Global Balance and Systemic Risk in Financial Correlation Networks

Bartesaghi, Paolo; Diaz-Diaz, Fernando; Grassi, Rosanna; Uberti, Pierpaolo
Submitted (2025)

A cross-disciplinary research framework at institution level and beyond

Argyris, Apostolos; Hernández-García, Emilio; San Miguel, Maxi
Nature Communications 15, 10399 (1-3) (2024)

Entropy and type-token ratio in gigaword corpora

Rosillo-Rodes,Pablo;San Miguel,Maxi;Sanchez,David;
Submitted (2024)

Effective theory of collective deep learning

Arola-Fernández, Lluís; Lacasa, Lucas
Physical Review Research 6, L042040 (2024)

Related News

IFISC highlighted in Nature Communications as a model of interdisciplinary research

Dec. 13, 2024
The article highlights that the Institute explores scientific territories at the frontiers between traditional fields, facilitating the emergence of new areas of knowledge.  The Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) is the protagonist of a new article ...

Researchers analyze how our relationships affect the adoption of innovations

Oct. 21, 2024
The study, published in PNAS Nexus, reveals that indirect connections in social networks influence the adoption of innovations, with an impact that reaches up to two-thirds that of direct contacts.The experiment demonstrates that the influence of friends of friends ...

Signed networks model enhances understanding of global conflicts and alliances

Sept. 9, 2024
Researchers at IFISC and the University of Milano-Bicocca develop a model using signed networks to understand international relations.The study, published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, proposes a local balance index to evaluate countries' contributions to global ...

New research proposes using mathematical tool to decipher complex social dynamics

June 11, 2024
Researchers at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems develop a model that characterises the dynamics of group interactions The study, published in ‘Nature Communications’, uses temporal hypergraphs to study how conversation groups form in different social contexts Traditional ...

On language preferences in multilingual societies

Nov. 15, 2023
Researchers at IFISC (UIB-CSIC) mathematically model linguistic ideologies to understand why some languages are spoken more than others.The study, published in Chaos, examines the influence of interaction between populations on linguistic dynamics. Researchers at the Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics ...

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