Parallel Population and Parallel Human Proposes a new paradigm to investigate an individual’s cognitive deliberation in dynamic human-machine interactions Today, intelligent machines enable people to interact remotely with friends, family, romantic partners, colleagues, competitors, organizations, and others. Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), mobile social media, and other technologies have been driving these interactions to an unprecedented level. As the complexity in system control and management with human participants increases, engineers are facing challenges that arise from the uncertainty of operators or users. Parallel Population and Parallel Human: A Cyber-Physical Social Approach presents systemic solutions for modeling, analysis, computation, and management of individuals’ cognition and decision-making in human-participated systems, such as the MetaVerse. With a virtual-real behavioral approach that seeks to actively prescribe user behavior through cognitive and dynamic learning, the authors present a parallel population/human model for optimal prescriptive control and management of complex systems that leverages recent advances in artificial intelligence. Throughout the book, the authors address basic theory and methodology for modeling, describe various implementation techniques, highlight potential acceleration technologies, discuss application cases from different fields, and more. In addition, the text: Considers how an individual’s behavior is formed and how to prescribe their behavioral modes Describes agent-based computation for complex social systems based on a synthetic population from realistic individual groups Proposes a universal algorithm applicable to a wide range of social organization types Extends traditional cognitive modeling by utilizing a dynamic approach to investigate cognitive deliberation in highly time-variant tasks Presents a new method that can be used for both large-scale social systems and real-time human-machine interactions without extensive experiments for modeling Parallel Population and Parallel Human: A Cyber-Physical Social Approach is a must-read for researchers, engineers, scientists, professionals, and graduate students who work on systems engineering, human-machine interaction, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence.

Table of Contents:
Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 From Behavioral Analysis to Prescription 1 1.1 Social Intelligence 1 1.2 Human–Machine Interaction 4 1.3 From Behavior Analysis to Prescription 6 1.4 Parallel Population and Parallel Human 9 1.5 Central Themes and Structure of this Book 11 References 13 2 Basic Population Synthesis 17 2.1 Problem Statement and Data Sources 18 2.1.1 Cross-Classification Table 18 2.1.2 Sample 21 2.1.3 Long Table 22 2.2 Sample-Based Method 23 2.2.1 Iterative Proportional Fitting Synthetic Reconstruction 23 2.2.2 Combinatorial Optimization 24 2.2.3 Copula-Based Synthesis 26 2.3 Sample-Free Method 30 2.4 Experiment Results 37 2.4.1 Copula-Based Population Synthesis 37 2.4.2 Joint Distribution Inference 43 2.5 Conclusions and Discussions 52 References 53 3 Synthetic Population with Social Relationships 55 3.1 Household Integration in Synthetic Population 56 3.2 Individual Assignment 60 3.2.1 Heuristic Allocation 62 3.2.2 Iterative Allocation 65 3.3 Heuristic Search 67 3.4 Joint Distribution Fitting 70 3.5 Deep Generative Models 75 3.6 Population Synthesis with Multi-social Relationships 78 3.6.1 Limitations of IPU Algorithm 78 3.6.2 Population with Multi-social Relationships 85 3.7 Conclusions and Discussions 93 References 95 4 Architecture for Agent Decision Cycle 97 4.1 Parallel Humans in Human–Machine Interactive Systems 98 4.2 Why and What Is the Cognitive Architecture? 100 4.3 Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence 103 4.4 Architecture for Control 110 4.5 Architecture for Knowledge Discovery 113 4.6 Architecture for Computational Neuroscience 116 4.7 Architecture for Pattern Recognition 121 4.8 Other Representative Architecture 123 4.9 TiDEC: A Two-Layered Integrated Cycle for Agent Decision 129 4.10 Conclusions and Discussions 134 References 135 5 Evolutionary Reasoning 141 5.1 Knowledge Representation 142 5.2 Evolutionary Reasoning Using Causal Inference 147 5.3 Learning Fitness Function from Expert Decision Chains 156 5.4 Conclusions and Discussions 158 References 158 6 Knowledge Acquisition by Learning 163 6.1 Foundation of Knowledge Repository Learning 164 6.2 Knowledge Acquisition Based on Self-Supervised Learning 167 6.3 Adaptive Knowledge Extraction for Data Stream 170 6.3.1 Neural-Symbolic Learning 171 6.3.2 Explanation of Deep Learning 176 6.4 Experiment on Travel Behavior Learning 183 6.5 Conclusions and Discussions 194 References 195 7 Agent Calibration and Validation 199 7.1 Model Calibration for Agent 199 7.2 Calibration Based on Optimization 202 7.3 Calibration Based on Machine Learning 209 7.4 Calibration Based on Cybernetics 214 7.5 Calibration Using Variational Auto-Encoder 227 7.6 Conclusions and Discussions 233 References 233 8 High-Performance Computing for Computational Deliberation Experiments 237 8.1 Computational Acceleration Using High-Performance Computing 237 8.1.1 Spark with Hadoop 238 8.1.2 MPI/OpenMP on Supercomputing 244 8.2 Computational Deliberation Experiments in Cloud Computing 249 8.3 Computational Deliberation Experiments in Supercomputing 258 8.4 Conclusions and Discussions 262 References 263 9 Interactive Strategy Prescription 265 9.1 Hierarchical Behavior Prescription System 266 9.2 Dynamic Community Discovery for Group Prescription 270 9.3 Strategy Prescription Based on Content Match 273 9.4 Active Learning in Strategy Prescription 278 9.5 Conclusions and Discussions 284 References 285 10 Applications for Parallel Population/Human 287 10.1 Population Evolution 287 10.2 Computational Experiments for Travel Behavior 292 10.3 Parallel Travel Behavioral Prescription 295 10.4 Travel Behavioral Prescription for Sports Event 301 10.5 Conclusions and Discussions 305 References 306 11 Ethical and Legal Issues of Parallel Population/Human 307 11.1 Relationships Between the Parallel Population/Human and Its Individual Users 308 11.2 Authority of the Parallel Population/Human System 309 11.3 Risk Management and Responsibility Identification 310 11.4 Conclusions and Discussions 311 References 311 Appendix A Convergence for Multivariate IPF 313 Index 321