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SUMMARY:Policy Informatics for Co-evolving Socio-technical Networks: Issue
 s in Believability and Usefulness - Marathe\, M (Virginia State University
 )
DTSTART:20110907T090000Z
DTEND:20110907T093000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:The talk outlines a high resolution interaction-based approach
  to support policy informatics for large co-evolving socio-technical netwo
 rks. Such systems consist of a large number of interacting physical\, tech
 nological\, and human/societal components. Quantitative changes in HPC inc
 luding faster machines and service-oriented software have created qualitat
 ive changes in the way information can be integrated in analysis of these 
 large heterogeneous systems and supporting policy makers as they consider 
 the pros and cons of various decision choices. \n\nAgent-oriented simulati
 on is an example of an interaction based computational technique useful fo
 r reasoning about biological\, information and social networks. Developing
  scalable models raises important computational and conceptual issues\, in
 cluding computational efficiency\, necessity of detailed representation an
 d uncertainty quantification. \n\nThe talk will describe the development o
 f high performance computing based crises management system called Compreh
 ensive National Incident Management System (CNIMS). As an illustrative cas
 e study we will describe how CNIMS can be used for developing a scalable c
 omputer assisted decision support system for pandemic planning and respons
 e. We will conclude by discussing challenging validation and verification 
 issues that arise when developing such models. \n\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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