Trustworthy Computational Science Speaker Series: Adelinde Uhrmacher
Adelinde Uhrmacher, Professor at the University of Rostock and Head of the Modeling and Simulation Group at the Institute of Visual and Analytic Computing, will present “Adaptive simulation models for trustworthy computational science."
Abstract: Transparency, reproducibility, and reuse in simulation rely on making the different artifacts of simulation studies and the context of their generation explicit and accessible. Here, we want to stress another aspect of trustworthiness in simulation, i.e., the need for simulation models to adapt to the modeled system, changing knowledge, data, and research questions. Adaptation may be an important part of the simulation model itself, depending on the system to be modeled. The simulation model is refined, revised, and extended depending on the knowledge gained and the data available, and thus subject to frequent adaptations during a simulation study. The reuse of simulation models across simulation studies relies on a suitable adaptation of simulation models according to new research questions, systems variations, knowledge, and data, forming a family of models. Last but not least, digital twins establish a close connection between the physical and the digital twin by frequent adaptations. Adaptive simulation models pose specific challenges for methodological support, including suitable domain-specific modeling languages, adaptive simulators, recording and exploitation of provenance, and automatically generating simulation experiments and models.
Adelinde Uhrmacher is a Professor at the University of Rostock and Head of the Modeling and Simulation Group at the Institute of Visual and Analytic Computing. Her research is aimed at methodological developments, particularly for stochastic, discrete-event, multi-level modeling and simulation, including domain-specific languages, simulation algorithms, and computational support for conducting simulation studies. Applications from demography, cell biology, and (socio-)ecology drive many of her methodological developments. She received the ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award in 2018. She has been editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation and a member of the ACM Task Force on Data, Software, and Reproducibility in Publication.
This series, open to the public, is hosted by the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). For the Spring 2024 schedule and access to previous talks, visit the Trustworthy Computational Science website. If you are interested in this speaker series, please subscribe to our speaker series calendar: Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar.
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