Project summary.

This is the first deliverable of the WP10 on Dissemination and Exploitation. The project web site is described here along with its main chapters and sections.

The aim of this document is to define the requirements of a Decision Support System (DSS) able to support decision makers in the regional planning activity. 

This paper examines the roles of managing strategic incentives in policy making so that governing bodies can devolop more sound policies.

This deliverable describes the work carried out in tasks 9.1 and 9.2 and introduces some elements of the pilot scenario, i.e. the Regional Energy Plan (REP) of the Emilia Romagna Region.

This deliverable introduces the architecture of the DSS, providing an overview of how it is organized, and describing from a functional viewpoint the components being part of the Decision Support System.

The aim of this document is to start from the requirements of a decision support system able to support regional planning defined in deliverable 2.1 and to design a model for the global optimizer, developed in task 3.3, that takes into account the regional perspective.

Information is provided on the expected results from the project, how these may be extended in the future together with the details of possible hurdles to deployment and the steps taken to identify how to address such hurdles.

This deliverable provides a state of the art on Opinion Mining and Tools for e-Participation in the context of the ePolicy project.

This document describes the first version of the prototype of the global level policy reasoning system. It is based on the modeling techniques proposed in deliverable D3.1, and it is focussed on the Regional Energy plan of the Emilia-Romagna region.

This document describes the first version of the prototype of the global level policy reasoning system. It is based on the modeling techniques proposed in deliverable D3.1, and it is focussed on the Regional Energy plan of the Emilia-Romagna region.

This document describes the first version of the visual analytics prototype implemented within Task 7.3 of Work Package 7 “Visual Analytics Techniques for Supporting the Policy Making Process and eParticipation”. The described prototype provides visual access to the global optimization component implemented in Work Package 3 “Global Policy Modelling: Optimization and Decision Support System”.

This report describes a testbed for formulating and exploring complex policy design problems motivated by the case-studies settings provided by the consortium, specifically the allocation of grants to citizens in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy to incentivize the installation of photovoltaic systems.

This deliverable is the complete prototype of the agent based simulator that models the decision making process for PV adoption by households.

This deliverable provides a general overview of the regional plans features that are modelled and supported within the ePolicy framework. In particular, the following aspects have been considered: Objectives, Financial Constraints, Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts, and Implementation Strategies. This document provides a general overview of how the ePolicy approach treats and models these aspects.

This deliverable provides a number of indicators for the evaluation of project results and outcomes. We identify the project components that need evaluation, provide proper means of their evaluation and possibly identify minimal success criteria.

The aim of this document is to evaluate the first version of the global optimization service producing a regional energy plan, described in the deliverable 3.2. The evaluation is performed by considering both functional and non functional requirements.

This deliverable describes the methodologies used to calibrate the actors within the Social Simulator Component.

This document describes the first version of the prototype of the opinion mining system. It provides a brief description of : (i) the goals of this system; (ii) its main functionality requirements; (iii) the architecture of the proposed solution; (iv) some example use cases; (v) a more detailed description of the main components of the system; and (vi) how to install and use the prototype.

This document describes the evaluation of the first version visual analytics prototype implemented within Task 7.3 of Work Package 7 “Visual Analytics Techniques for Supporting the Policy Making Process and eParticipation”. The evaluation was conducted within Task 7.4 “Visual Analytics Prototype Evaluation” of Work Package 4.

This deliverable aims to collect information about all ePolicy dissemination activities undertaken by the project partners in the period from the start of the project until month 14. The activities listed cover dissemination at all levels including stakeholders, public bodies, citizens, scientific community.

This report describes the second version of a testbed for formulating and exploring complex policy design problems motivated by the case-studies settings provided by the consortium, specifically the allocation of grants to citizens in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy to incentivize the installation of photovoltaic systems.

This document describes the first version of the evaluation of the opinion mining software component.

This deliverable aims to collect information about all ePolicy dissemination activities undertaken by the project partners in the period from the start of the project until month 26. The activities listed cover dissemination at all levels including stakeholders, public bodies, citizens, scientific community.

This document is the official documentation of the prototype of the global level policy reasoning system Version 2. This tool aims to compute optimal energy plans with respect to chosen objectives, and assess the environmental impact of the energy plan in order to support policy makers. It is based on the modeling techniques proposed in deliverable D3.1, and it is focussed on the Regional Energy plan of the Emilia-Romagna region. 

Version 2 has a number of additional features beyond those in version 1, including being able to provide quantitative environmental impact values and an assessment of the impact on the environment, human health and global warming. In addition to this, a new algorithm was developed to implement multi-criteria optimisation.

This deliverable describes the results of the integrated social simulator and incentive design component, when used to simulate the four policy instruments considered for incentivising photovoltaic (PV) solar panel adoption by households in Emilia-Romagna.

This report demonstrates the testbed for formulating and exploring complex policy design problems motivated by the case-studies settings provided by the consortium, specifically the allocation of grants to citizens in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy to incentivize the installation of photovoltaic systems.

This document describes the second and final version of the prototype of the opinion mining system.

This document describes the final version of the visual analytics prototype implemented within Task 7.3 of Work Package 7 “Visual Analytics Techniques for Supporting the Policy Making Process and eParticipation”.

This document describes the second and final version of the evaluation of the opinion mining software component.

This document describes the second and final version of the evaluation of the opinion mining software component.

Deliverble D8.2 consists of the integrate prototype for the unified ePolicy framework. It currently comes in two forms: a software prototype, available online at the url http://production.epolicy-project.eu/ demo, and the current document, describing the prototype from the technical viewpoint. This document in particular describes the technical choices, implementation details, and the policy maker workflow, from the viewpoint of the integrated framework

The aim of this document is to evaluate the second version of the global optimization service producing a regional energy plan, described in the deliverable 3.4. The evaluation is performed by considering both functional and non functional requirements.

This report demonstrates the testbed for formulating and exploring complex policy design problems motivated by the case-studies settings provided by the consortium, specifically the allocation of grants to citizens in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and Bologna, its capital, to incentivize the installa- tion of photovoltaic systems. We explore a number of different parameter settings and scenarios and investigate their effect on the installed power capacity and cost of the individual policy instruments. We draw conclusions as to the most effective incentive instrument and investigate an alternative, po- tentially more optimal, way of allocating funds to bids.

This document describes the evaluation of the second version visual analytics prototype implemented within Task 7.3 of Work Package 7 “Visual Analytics Techniques for Supporting the Policy Making Process and eParticipation”. The evaluation was conducted within Task 7.4 “Visual Analytics Prototype Evaluation” of Work Package 4.

This document is focused on defining the evaluation methodology for the ePolicy software. An analysis of the software component indicators reported in D2.3 is developed to give them a common structure in terms of target users, methods of testing, means of evaluation and the measurement of success. Moreover a contingency plan, specifying how to deal with the failure of a specific indicator or, in the worst case, of a whole component is defined. Additionally the document provides information on the possible testers of the software and the strategies foreseen to involve external evaluators, also including the questionnaires that will be used to collect their feedback.

Deliverble D8.3 consists of the evaluation of the prototype of the decision support system by investigating technical aspects, exploiting classical software engineering techniques like coverage of the functional/ non functional requirements identified within Task 2.1. Also performance evaluations of the overall prototype will be analysed, to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the system as a whole.

The purpose of this document is to evaluate the ePolicy Decision Support System (DSS) platform developed as part of the ePolicy project. The DSS is currently focussed on the project’s case study which covers aspects of the regional energy plan of the Emilia-Romagna region. The software is evaluated both through comparison with the functional requirements listed and described in Deliverable D8.2, and through various external user testing activities.
As well as evaluation of the DSS itself, this document includes evaluation of other areas of the ePolicy project including the eParticipation process that was used to support and facilitate stakeholder consultation and collaboration. Additionally, this document evaluates the plans and activities that have so far been developed or undertaken regarding the exploitation of the results of the project.