Technical engine for democratization of modeling, simulations, and predictions by Justyna Zander and Pieter J. Mosterman. (Justyna Zander and Pieter J. Mosterman. 2012. Technical engine for democratization of modeling, simulations, and predictions. In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC ’12). Winter Simulation Conference , Article 228 , 14 pages.)
Abstract:
Computational science and engineering play a critical role in advancing both research and daily-life challenges across almost every discipline. As a society, we apply search engines, social media, and selected aspects of engineering to improve personal and professional growth. Recently, leveraging such aspects as behavioral model analysis, simulation, big data extraction, and human computation is gaining momentum. The nexus of the above facilitates mass-scale users in receiving awareness about the surrounding and themselves. In this paper, an online platform for modeling and simulation (M&S) on demand is proposed. It allows an average technologist to capitalize on any acquired information and its analysis based on scientifically-founded predictions and extrapolations. The overall objective is achieved by leveraging open innovation in the form of crowd-sourcing along with clearly defined technical methodologies and social-network-based processes. The platform aims at connecting users, developers, researchers, passionate citizens, and scientists in a professional network and opens the door to collaborative and multidisciplinary innovations. An example of a domain-specific model of a pick and place machine illustrates how to employ the platform for technical innovation and collaboration.
It is an interesting paper but when speaking of integration of models the authors say:
The integration is performed in multiple manners. Multi-domain tools that become accessible from one common environment using the cloud-computing paradigm serve as a starting point. The next step of integration happens when various M&S execution semantics (and models of computation (cf., Lee and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli 1998; Lee 2010) are merged and model transformations are performed.
That went by too quickly for me. You?
The question of effective semantic integration is an important one.
The U.S. federal government publishes enough data to map where some of the dark data is waiting to be found.
The good, bad or irrelevant data churned out every week, makes the amount of effort required an ever increasing barrier to its use by the public.
Perhaps that is by design?
What do you think?