Institute for Computational Sustainability

By Simon | Published: September 29, 2009

leavesWhilst away in the states earlier this summer I met a representative from the nascent Institute for computational sustainability (ICS). Computational sustainability is defined as an interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainable development, with a focus on developing computational and mathematical models and methods for decision making concerning the management and allocation of resources in order to help solve some of the most challenging problems related to sustainability.

This dovetails quite nicely with some of my interests in the area which are in the application of computer science techniques, such as argumentation, defeasible logics, intelligent agents and multiagent systems, and ludic theory, to the problems experienced when attempting to balance societal and environmental needs with the aim of fostering a sustainable world.

There have been two events this year on the topic of computational sustainability, a workshop (CROCS-09) and a conference (CompSust09) and it looks as though there might be a burgeoning sustainability society starting up at Dundee with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research in the field. We shall have to see.

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