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Interactive Web-Based Flood Modeling At Country Wide Scale And Plantar Size Resolution, Fedor Baart, Jack Ha, Arthur Van Dam, Gennadii Donchyts, Martijn Siemerink Jun 2014

Interactive Web-Based Flood Modeling At Country Wide Scale And Plantar Size Resolution, Fedor Baart, Jack Ha, Arthur Van Dam, Gennadii Donchyts, Martijn Siemerink

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The flooding of rural and urban areas is an increasing hazard to society. Accurate and timely predictions are essential for the water manager to prepare and respond to these hazards. Predicting flooding requires a numerical model that represents the physical processes (rain, evaporation, infiltration, overland flow, groundwater flow). This model, fed with measurements, and possible measures, calculates the expected flooding. The traditional working method consists of a three step process: schematization setup, running and post-processing, with a total feedback time of hours. This process is suitable for confirmatory modeling. Most of the time, models are applied exploratory, requiring a different …


Mathematical Modelling Of Highway Traffic Policies, Benjamin Squire, John-Paul Mann, Nathan Minor May 2014

Mathematical Modelling Of Highway Traffic Policies, Benjamin Squire, John-Paul Mann, Nathan Minor

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Extensive research has been done to model and simulate traffic flow in order to answer valuable questions in the implementation of different traffic policies. A major open question is whether or not the stay right except to pass rule is an efficient traffic policy in terms of traffic flow and safety. We develop a particle-interaction based model which stems from how cars react and make decisions using locally restricted knowledge and observe how snapshots of these processes over a large closed continuous road govern the dynamics of the overall traffic flow. Through computer simulation, we observe and analyze the difference …


Modeling Sleep And Wake Bouts In Drosophila Melanogaster, Gayla R. Olbricht, V. A. Samaranayake, Sahitya Injamuri, Luyang Wang, Courtney Fiebelman, Matthew S. Thimgan Apr 2014

Modeling Sleep And Wake Bouts In Drosophila Melanogaster, Gayla R. Olbricht, V. A. Samaranayake, Sahitya Injamuri, Luyang Wang, Courtney Fiebelman, Matthew S. Thimgan

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Adequate sleep restores vital processes required for health and well-being; but the function and regulation of sleep is not well understood. Unfortunately, a definition of adequate sleep is unclear. On an hours-long timescale, consolidated and cycling sleep results in better health and performance outcomes. At shorter timescales, older studies report conflicting results regarding the relationship between sleep and wake bout durations. One approach to this problem has been to simply analyze the distribution of bout durations. While informative, this method eliminates the time relationship between bouts, which may be important. Here, we develop a model that describes the relationship between …


Building Resilience In A Major City Evacuation Plan Using Simulation Modeling, Adam Kirby, James Eric Dietz, Eric Matson, Joseph Pekny, Clifford Wojtalewicz Jan 2014

Building Resilience In A Major City Evacuation Plan Using Simulation Modeling, Adam Kirby, James Eric Dietz, Eric Matson, Joseph Pekny, Clifford Wojtalewicz

International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction (I3R2) Conference

This study provides data on the optimal staff, materials, space, and time resources required to operate a regional hub reception center, a “short-term facility with the goal to process and transport displaced survivors (evacuees) to temporary or permanent shelters following a catastrophic incident,” (Regional Catastrophic Planning Team, 2012). The facility will process approximately 20,000 evacuees over its entire seven-day duration following a disaster to assist in community resilience. The study was performed using a model created using the computer simulation software, AnyLogic. The results of the study demonstrated that the goals set forth by the Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin Regional Catastrophic Planning Team …