Judges' Commentary: Migration to Mars

摘要

This problem presented challenges to teams in the form of understanding the scenario and its tasks, building viable models from very qualitative human-relevant concepts (e.g., happiness), and forming actionable recommendations for systems and policies based on their models. Many teams had innovative and useful ideas for some parts of the problem, but were unable to satisfy all the tasks required in the problem within the time constraints. The four outstanding teams seemed to fulfill those tasks the best and still write logical recommendations for the Population Zero leaders. The judges see benefit to this kind of ICM problem, since time-constrained policy modeling is a demanding task that is performed by public and private analysts and modelers throughout the world. The judges congratulate all the teams that selected and worked on this problem and wish those ICM modelers who will become real-life policy modelers well in analyzing issues and making valuable and acceptable recommendations to the decision makers.