METICOS Deliverable D6.1 Survey and State of the Art about possible social sources
Creators: name: Chatzimallis, Charalampos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Deliverable D6.1 provides state-of-the-art functional and operational requirements for the METICOS Social Sensing Platform, including methodologies for the description and structuring of the METICOS Platform as well as the requirements for social sensing sources and agent-based simulation tools that will be used. Beyond discussing the foundations of social sensing itself, a broader, user-centric perspective is given by providing an overview of relevant social sensing applications related to interaction with border control technologies. Furthermore, state of the art in METICOS agent-based simulation context (application domain and agent-based simulation tools) is being discussed. <br> The current deliverable report consists of six sections: Section 1 provides an executive summary, and Section 2 presents an introduction including the primary purposes, objectives and document outline. Section 3 provides a more general overview of the smart border control technologies (SBCTs) as well as a SOTA review in agent-based simulation (application domain and tools) and social sensing (applications, social sensing media sources). Also, this section includes an overview of technology acceptance, highlighting the relation between technology acceptance and border control technologies. Section 4 then focuses on the functional and operational requirements of the social sensing toolkit, which is the key topic and activity of the D6.1, including: 1) the proposed architecture for developing the METICOS social sensing toolkit, 2) the data collection template, 3) the requirements for social sensing source and agent-based simulation tool and 4) the social sensing techniques that will be used for the social sensing toolkit. Section 5 focuses on challenges and open issues. Finally, in Section 6, a number of conclusions and findings from the surveyed SOTA is derived, particularly as regards upcoming activities in work packages WP5, WP7 and WP8. Among those, key findings and recommendations are: A number of Smart Border Control technologies in different countries (including the consortium countries) can improve border crossing process in terms of speed, cost, security, automation, false rejection reduction and many other factors. METICOS project will address two main challenges: i) the need for more effective and efficient Smart Borders and ii) the need for gaining the travellers’ acceptance and satisfaction with the use of Smart Borders technologies. The integration of AnyLogic, which is an agent-based simulation tool in social sensing platforms, represents a significant research opportunity for the METICOS project. AnyLogic is currently the most appropriate M&amp;S tool for modelling in a modular, hierarchical, and incremental way, allowing systems to be represented to any level of detail. According to the requirements for the social sensing source, Twitter is most appropriate for data collection and data processing due to its strong hashtag culture, which makes it easier for gathering, sorting, and extending searches. Specifically, it will help METICOS project to achieve a fuller understanding of the user’s/traveller’s acceptance of BCPs. <br> Due to the lack of bibliographical references about the implementation of social sensing at border control technologies, D6.1 will be used as a guide for the following tasks of WP6, D.6.2. “Social Data analysis and extracted perceptions” and D6.3. “METICOS Social Sensing Toolkit”.