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Proposing A Framework For Crowd-Sourced Green Infrastructure Design, Samuel Rivera, Lawrence E. Band, Jong S. Lee, Kenton Mchenry, Arthur R. Schmidt, Jack Snoeyink, William C. Sullivan, Mary C. Whitton, Barbara Minsker
Proposing A Framework For Crowd-Sourced Green Infrastructure Design, Samuel Rivera, Lawrence E. Band, Jong S. Lee, Kenton Mchenry, Arthur R. Schmidt, Jack Snoeyink, William C. Sullivan, Mary C. Whitton, Barbara Minsker
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Green stormwater infrastructure (GI) (e.g., rain gardens, bioswales, green roofs, etc.) are decentralized systems that have gained recent attention for their ability to reduce stormwater management problems while significantly benefiting human and ecosystem well-being. Available GI design methodologies lack a participatory framework that considers community-specific social, cultural, economic, and political constraints, critical components for widespread acceptance and effective implementation and maintenance of such systems. A project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation seeks to develop a novel, computational, GI design framework that integrates interactive, neighborhood-scale, collaborative design by multiple stakeholders ("crowd-sourced" design) with multi- scale models of ecosystem and …
Eliciting Stakeholder Preferences Through Nonmarket Valuation Techniques, Marit E. Kragt
Eliciting Stakeholder Preferences Through Nonmarket Valuation Techniques, Marit E. Kragt
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To successfully predict the impacts of environmental change, modellers need to incorporate analyses of human behaviour into their predictions. The engagement of stakeholders, including participatory model development, is now widely advocated as an approach to account for stakeholder preferences. While participatory approaches are suitable to involve targeted stakeholder groups and technical experts, it is typically prohibitively expensive to engage a wide range of communities in the model development process. Many environmental modellers may be aware of social science research methods to participatory research. Socio-economic approaches to elicit stakeholder preferences are, however, less commonly used. This paper presents three stated preference …
A Social Metamodel To Control The Participatory Process In Complex System Modelling, Michel Lample, Denis Bailly, Johanna Ballé-Béganton
A Social Metamodel To Control The Participatory Process In Complex System Modelling, Michel Lample, Denis Bailly, Johanna Ballé-Béganton
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The metamodel framework is a new tool for co-construction of models involving societal or political participation. Rather than an attempt to model the social factor by numerical techniques which amounts to project the social paradigm in the model paradigm, the metamodel framework provides a way to overcome the difficulties of social behaviour by an inverse projection of the model paradigm into the social one. The framework asks for a strict methodology based on a suitable agenda, a quality process and the management by an Architect team. Furthermore, this framework accommodates lean modelling techniques that system platforms are able to provide.
Interoperable Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems: A Framework Proposal, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè
Interoperable Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems: A Framework Proposal, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè
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In this paper, an approach for the development of Interoperable Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems (IEDSS) is proposed. The framework is based upon the cognitive-oriented approach for the development of IEDSS proposed in (Sànchez-Marrè et al., 2008), where three kinds of tasks must be built: analysis tasks, synthesis tasks and prognosis tasks. Now, a fourth level will be proposed: the model construction layer, which is normally an off-line task. At each level, interoperability should be possible and inter-level interoperability must also be achieved. This interoperability is proposed to be obtained using data interchange protocols like Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), …
Evolutionary Computation And Case-Based Reasoning Interoperation In Iedss Through Gesconda, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Gibert Karina, Radha K. Vinayagam, Beatriz Sevilla-Villanueva
Evolutionary Computation And Case-Based Reasoning Interoperation In Iedss Through Gesconda, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Gibert Karina, Radha K. Vinayagam, Beatriz Sevilla-Villanueva
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Interoperability of Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems (IEDSS) is one open challenge in the IEDSS field. This paper shows the interoperability of Evolutionary Computation, concretely Genetic Algorithms (GA), and Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) in IEDSS through the GESCONDA tool. GESCONDA is a tool for the deployment of Intelligent Decision Support Systems. This interoperability has been tested with several domains with different purposes like classification tasks, predictive tasks, etc. In the paper, the application in one environmental domain is described and analysed. The experimentation results indicate that this interoperation of both methods can improve the results of the application of one single …
A Hybrid, Integrated Iedds For The Management Of Sequencing Batch Reactors, Davide Sottara, Stefano Bragaglia, Dalila Pulcini, Paola Mello, Luca Luccarini
A Hybrid, Integrated Iedds For The Management Of Sequencing Batch Reactors, Davide Sottara, Stefano Bragaglia, Dalila Pulcini, Paola Mello, Luca Luccarini
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A Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) is a particular kind of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), where all treatment processes take place in a single reactor tank, according to a fixed temporal sequence. SBR offers several advantages in terms of reduced costs, minor impact and greater flexibility with respect to traditional WWTPs. However, an optimal cost/performance ratio can only be achieved if the treatment processes are continuously monitored and controlled. In this paper, we present a hybrid, distributed, knowledge-based (Intelligent) Environmental Decision Support System (IEDSS) specifically dedicated to the management of SBRs. The IEDSS is responsible for verifying, ensuring and enforcing the …
Using Semantic-Based Spatial Reclassification For Interoperable Data Management In Natura 2000 Monitoring, Simon Nieland, Niklas Moran, Birgit Kleinschmit, Michael Förster
Using Semantic-Based Spatial Reclassification For Interoperable Data Management In Natura 2000 Monitoring, Simon Nieland, Niklas Moran, Birgit Kleinschmit, Michael Förster
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
In various fields of spatial research, semantic heterogeneity remains an unsolved problem in terms of data comparability. Interoperability of biodiversity monitoring information is especially difficult because of its thematic complexity and the high variability of acquisition methods and national differences in nomenclatures. Each EU member state must compile comprehensive information on protected areas every six years to comply with the reporting obligations of the habitats directive. Since data collection methods and interpretation manuals broadly vary by member state and manual delineation of protected areas can never be neutral, there is a need for automatized, objective methodologies for the generation of …
Life Cycle Fragments: Development Of An Online Tool For Curating And Sharing Life, Brandon Kuczenski
Life Cycle Fragments: Development Of An Online Tool For Curating And Sharing Life, Brandon Kuczenski
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Increasingly, policy makers and consumers demand information on the environmental implications of industrial activities. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standardized methodology to relate the delivery of products and services to the potential environmental impacts from that delivery, both directly and throughout the industrial supply chain. LCA requires extensive information about industrial processes throughout the global economy, and is subject to substantial parametric and epistemic uncertainty. Moreover, results often hinge on modeling decisions, such as the selection of system outcomes. Comparative results from a single study can give policy-relevant insights only if it is possible to review the sensitivity of …
Exploring Environmental Model Catalogs, Ilva Zaslavsky, Thomas Whitenack, David Valentine
Exploring Environmental Model Catalogs, Ilva Zaslavsky, Thomas Whitenack, David Valentine
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
As part of the NSF EarthCube cross-domain interoperability roadmap and the CINERGI (Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability) projects, we assembled and analysed several catalogs of environmental models. The goals of this work included analysis of patterns of pre-model data flows from multiple domains and consistent cataloguing models across multiple model collections using a common set of metadata fields. This paper presents status updates and initial analytical results along these goals. We explored model registries assembled by NOAA and EPA, as well as model descriptions created within CSDMS, ESMF and TESS projects. These model metadata collections were visualized …
A New Evaluation Framework For Input Variable Selection Algorithms Used In Environmental Modelling, Greer B. Humphrey, Stefano Galelli, Andrea Castelleti, Holger R. Maier, Graeme C. Dandy, Matthew S. Gibbs
A New Evaluation Framework For Input Variable Selection Algorithms Used In Environmental Modelling, Greer B. Humphrey, Stefano Galelli, Andrea Castelleti, Holger R. Maier, Graeme C. Dandy, Matthew S. Gibbs
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Input variable selection is an essential step in the development of statistical models and is particularly relevant in environmental modelling, where potential model inputs often consist of time lagged values of each different potential input variable. While new methods for identifying important model inputs continue to emerge, each has its own advantages and limitations and no method is best suited to all datasets and purposes. Nevertheless, rigorous evaluation of new and existing input variable selection methods, is largely neglected due to the lack of guidelines or precedent to facilitate consistent and standardised assessment. This rigorous evaluation would allow the effectiveness …
The Smarth2o Project And The Role Of Social Computing In Promoting Efficient Residential Water Use: A First Analysis, A. E. Rizzoli, A. Castelleti, A. Cominola, P. Fraternali, A. Diniz Dos Santos, B. Storni, R. Wissmann-Alves, M. Bertocchi, J. Novak, I. Micheal
The Smarth2o Project And The Role Of Social Computing In Promoting Efficient Residential Water Use: A First Analysis, A. E. Rizzoli, A. Castelleti, A. Cominola, P. Fraternali, A. Diniz Dos Santos, B. Storni, R. Wissmann-Alves, M. Bertocchi, J. Novak, I. Micheal
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
SmartH2O is an EU funded project which aims at creating a virtuous feedback cycle between water users and the utilities, providing users information on their consumption in quasi real time, and thus enabling water utilities to plan and implement strategies to reduce/reallocate water consumption. Traditional metering data, usually gathered twice a year, can be used to model consumers' behaviour at an aggregate level, but the motivations and individual attitudes of consumers are hidden. The advent of smart water meters allows gathering high frequency consumption data that can be used to provide instantaneous information to water utilities on the state of …
Large Wood Flow Hydraulics: A 3d Modelling Approach, Yong G. Lai, David J. Bandrowski
Large Wood Flow Hydraulics: A 3d Modelling Approach, Yong G. Lai, David J. Bandrowski
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Large Wood (LW) has been widely used in stream and watershed restoration projects due to the many ecological benefits it offers. Its use in streams, however, has unresolved challenges with regard to its impact on stream morphology, safety and lack of design guidelines. Laboratory or field study of LW is difficult due to irregular nature of LW structures. Computational fluid dynamics (CFO) modelling, therefore, becomes an attractive alternative. However, CFO modelling of LW has its own challenges: the difficulty of mesh representation and lack of reliable and practical 3O flow and mobile-bed models. In this paper, an LW research and …
Development Of Data To Support A Software Application For Assessment Of Wind Conditions In The Port Of Rotterdam, Wendy D. Janssen, Bert Blocken, Hermjan Van Wijhe
Development Of Data To Support A Software Application For Assessment Of Wind Conditions In The Port Of Rotterdam, Wendy D. Janssen, Bert Blocken, Hermjan Van Wijhe
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Information on wind conditions in harbors and wind loads on ships is important for safe maneuvering and mooring of ships. The wind conditions in harbors are very complex and characterized by a multitude of internal atmospheric boundary layers due to the large variations in terrain roughness. This paper presents the development of data to support a software application for assessment of wind conditions in the Port of Rotterdam. An extensive measurement campaign using ultrasonic anemometers was performed in the harbor during a period of 6 months. These measurements were compared with the numerical simulations with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) on …
Computational Analysis Of The Performance Of A New Facade Concept For Wind Comfort On Building Balconies: Validation And Application, Hamid Montazeri, Bert Blocken, Wendy Janssen, Twan Van Hooff
Computational Analysis Of The Performance Of A New Facade Concept For Wind Comfort On Building Balconies: Validation And Application, Hamid Montazeri, Bert Blocken, Wendy Janssen, Twan Van Hooff
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
High-rise buildings can cause high wind speed near ground level and on building balconies necessitating remedial action. In order to reduce wind discomfort on balconies, different measures can be taken. This paper presents the evaluation of a new second-skin facade concept to improve wind comfort at building balconies. The concept consists of a staggered semi-open second-skin facade in front of the balconies, which partly shields them from the wind. CFO simulations are performed for the building with and without second-skin facade concept. Validation is conducted using wind-tunnel measurements of surface pressure distribution on a building model with balconies. Next, the …
Multicriteria Decision-Making For Flood Management Based On Sustainable Development Criteria, Mohammad Ebrahim Banihabib, Abolfazl Laghabdoost-Arani
Multicriteria Decision-Making For Flood Management Based On Sustainable Development Criteria, Mohammad Ebrahim Banihabib, Abolfazl Laghabdoost-Arani
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Flood management alternatives are investigated based on sustainable development criteria (SDC) by using a non-compensatory multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) model, ELECTRE- III, to reduce flood damage in a study reach of the Gorganrood River in Golestan Province, north of Iran. The selection of optimal alternative of flood management is a multi-objective issue and thus using MCDM models becomes necessary. Considering the physical, social and economic conditions of the region, a set of structural and non-structural alternatives is proposed for the flood management in the study reach of the Gorganrood River. To model sustainable development, 11 criteria are proposed for decisions regarding …
A Spatial Framework For Regional-Scale Flooding Risk Assessment, Yun Chen, Damian Barrett, Rui Liu, Lei Gao, Mingwei Zhou, Luigi Renzullo, Susan Cuddy, Irina Emelyanova
A Spatial Framework For Regional-Scale Flooding Risk Assessment, Yun Chen, Damian Barrett, Rui Liu, Lei Gao, Mingwei Zhou, Luigi Renzullo, Susan Cuddy, Irina Emelyanova
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The mining sector in Australia and globally has always been vulnerable to extreme weather with excess water due to flooding and deficient water through drought. Estimating flood inundation risk at a regional scale is essential for understanding sustainable mine water management, such as the Bowen Basin in Queensland, Australia. In this region, many coal mines have been facing a major challenge of increasing risk of flooding caused by intensive rainfall events. This research develops a spatial multi-criteria decision making {SMCDM) framework to assess flooding risk at regional scale using part of the Bowen Basin as a case study. Spatial data, …
Bedform-Induced Hyporheic Exchange: Impact Of Porous Medium Permeability, Carto Gualtieri
Bedform-Induced Hyporheic Exchange: Impact Of Porous Medium Permeability, Carto Gualtieri
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Stream and pore waters continuously interact and mix within streambeds due to spatial and temporal variations in channel characteristics. This mixing is termed hyporheic exchange and the zone where groundwater and stream water are mixing is called the hyporheic zone, which can greatly affect water quality in both surface and subsurface water systems.
The paper presents some results of a numerical study carried out to investigate the influence of porous medium permeability on hyporheic exchange. Laminar flow in the water column above triangular bedforms and Darcian flow in the underlying permeable sediments were considered. Numerical simulations were carried out in …
Educating Stakeholders About The Need For Water Balance Using A Participatory Modeling Framework, Nagesh Kolagani, Palaniappan Ramu, Alexey A. Voinov, Rajeshwar Gali, Lakshmana Rao
Educating Stakeholders About The Need For Water Balance Using A Participatory Modeling Framework, Nagesh Kolagani, Palaniappan Ramu, Alexey A. Voinov, Rajeshwar Gali, Lakshmana Rao
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Groundwater resources in many villages of the developing countries have been undergoing rapid decline over last few decades due to their unsustainable large scale exploitation. One of the main reasons for such overexploitation is the inability of village communities to collectively visualize and understand clearly the long term implications of such overexploitation. There is hence an urgent need to create awareness among stakeholders about the unsustainable nature of such overexploitation and to facilitate sustainable usage. Spatio-temporal participatory modeling of their water management practices can help greatly in promoting such awareness among village communities. These modeling tools can then be used …
Automated Data Quality Assessment: Dealing With Faulty On-Line Water Quality Sensors, Janelcy Alfreres, Peter A. Vanrolleghem
Automated Data Quality Assessment: Dealing With Faulty On-Line Water Quality Sensors, Janelcy Alfreres, Peter A. Vanrolleghem
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Compared to traditional grab sampling modern measurement systems enable continuous water quality monitoring of water systems at high frequency. However, in real world applications on-line sensors are still subject to functional, technical and operational constraints. Challenges thus remain associated with the automation of data collection and especially data validation to ensure proper use and interpretation of the data and avoid the danger of building data graveyards. Poor quality data could drastically affect the results of their application, e.g. water quality models for river basin management, model-based control, WWTP control rules, decision making, etc. For practical fault detection purposes, in this …
Use Of Cfd In The Initial Design Of A Snow Fence, Sarah Jane Wakes
Use Of Cfd In The Initial Design Of A Snow Fence, Sarah Jane Wakes
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The predominant reason for controlling snow deposition using fences is to keep roads and areas around buildings clear of snow during winter months. Empirical guidelines exist but little work has been done optimising fencing design for specific purpose and location. An alternative use of snow fences in New Zealand has been to control the position of drifting snow to simulate changing climatic conditions for plant research over 30 years. This has been of varied success due to lack of design guidelines and the difficulty of gathering field data for snow deposition for validation. Initial work uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …
2d Hydrodynamic Based Logic Modelling Tool For River Restoration Decision Analysis: A Quantitative Approach To Project Prioritization, David J. Bandrowski, Yong G. Lai, D. Nathan Bradley, Josh Murauskas, Dave Gauman
2d Hydrodynamic Based Logic Modelling Tool For River Restoration Decision Analysis: A Quantitative Approach To Project Prioritization, David J. Bandrowski, Yong G. Lai, D. Nathan Bradley, Josh Murauskas, Dave Gauman
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
In the field of river restoration sciences there is a growing need for analytical modelling tools and quantitative processes to help identify and prioritize project sites. Two-dimensional (20) hydraulic models have become more common in recent years and with the availability of robust data sets and computing technology, it is now possible to evaluate large river systems at the reach scale. The Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP) - Bureau of Reclamation in Northern California is now analyzing a 40 mile segment of the Trinity River to determine priority and implementation sequencing for its Phase II channel rehabilitation projects. A comprehensive …
Relationship Between Von Karman And Reynolds Number: A Critical Analysis Using The Wind Profile Method, Pelliccioni Armando
Relationship Between Von Karman And Reynolds Number: A Critical Analysis Using The Wind Profile Method, Pelliccioni Armando
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The Von Karman constant k is important for the study of lower layer of atmosphere. This parameter can be calculated using two methods: the gradient methods and the profile methods. In this work the profile methods has been applied. A dataset, collected in a meteorological tower sited at the National Wind Technology Center in Boulder was used. Data were selected for high neutral turbulence conditions, vertical homogeneity for the wind direction and friction velocity. A near-neutral correction has been applied to the observed Von Karman constant. The profile method permits to calculate the roughness Reynolds number, a parameter link to …
Three-Dimensional Numerical Model To Evaluate The Suspended Solid Removal In Surface Flow Constructed Wetland, Sangsoo Han, Zhi Chen, Fayi Zhou
Three-Dimensional Numerical Model To Evaluate The Suspended Solid Removal In Surface Flow Constructed Wetland, Sangsoo Han, Zhi Chen, Fayi Zhou
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Surface flow constructed wetlands (SFCWs) have been widely used to treat various types of wastewater and stormwater due to the advantages such as low costs for operating and maintenance compared with conventional treatment systems. In SFCW, the flow pattern, which is determined by the geometric features including bed morphology and vegetation distribution, significantly influences the removal processes of suspended solids and other pollutants. In this study, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model, that integrates hydrodynamic model and the Lagrangian particle tracking model, is applied to determine the effectiveness of a SFCW in removing suspended solids based on the predicted flow …
Balancing Conflicting Management Objectives Using Interactive, Three-Dimensional Visual Analytics, Joseph Kasprzyk, Joshua Kollat, Chris Danilo
Balancing Conflicting Management Objectives Using Interactive, Three-Dimensional Visual Analytics, Joseph Kasprzyk, Joshua Kollat, Chris Danilo
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
In the US, the recently introduced Principles and Requirements for Federal Investment in Water Resources captures an increasing trend for using multiple objective approaches to make funding decisions for water resources and environmental problems. Moreover, advanced search tools such as multi objective evolutionary algorithms can develop solutions to such problems, even when the problems are characterized by non-linearities, uncertainty, and false optima. However, our presentation argues that multi-objective decision support requires innovative methods for visualizing complex trade-offs between conflicting objectives, interrogating design possibilities, imposing preferences between objectives, and eventually negotiating a small set of final alternatives. Specifically we present a …
Assessing Environmental Trade-Offs With Bayesian Decision Networks - Comparing Ecosystem Services And Irrigation Needs Of Urban And Peri-Urban Plant Species In Xinjiang, Nw China, Sina K. Frank, Petra Döll, Martin Welp, Ümüt Halik, Hamid Yimit
Assessing Environmental Trade-Offs With Bayesian Decision Networks - Comparing Ecosystem Services And Irrigation Needs Of Urban And Peri-Urban Plant Species In Xinjiang, Nw China, Sina K. Frank, Petra Döll, Martin Welp, Ümüt Halik, Hamid Yimit
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Decisions in environmental management often have trade-offs attached: Either cost-benefit trade-offs, such as real costs and effectiveness of water treatment alternatives, or environmental trade-offs, such as environmental costs and benefits of land use alternatives which are more difficult to quantify. Vegetation managers in oasis towns of the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang, NW China, were interested in a specific local environmental trade-off. They wanted to know which urban and peri- urban plant species were most effective in mitigating dust weather while needing the least irrigation. To assess this trade-off, we developed a Bayesian Network and two simple Bayesian Decision Networks (BDNs). …
Modeling With Citizen Scientists: Using Community- Based Modeling Tools To Develop Citizen Science Projects, Steven Gray, David Mellor, Rebecca Jordan, Alycia Crall, Greg Newman
Modeling With Citizen Scientists: Using Community- Based Modeling Tools To Develop Citizen Science Projects, Steven Gray, David Mellor, Rebecca Jordan, Alycia Crall, Greg Newman
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Although model-based reasoning is often at the center of environmental science and management, the process of constructing, refining and empirically validating scientific models is not often made explicit to participants in many citizen science programs. The lack of attention that modeling receives in citizen science programs is likely attributable to resource constraints, given that scientific modeling often requires considerable training and scientific software tools are not easily accessible to members of the general public. To address these constraints, we describe the development and use of a fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping software called Mental Modeler (http://www.mentalmodeler.org/), embedded within a citizen science …
Assessing The Relative Value Of Stereoscopic 3d Versus Head Tracking In Large Scale Immersive Visualization, Derrick Turner, Daniel P. Ames
Assessing The Relative Value Of Stereoscopic 3d Versus Head Tracking In Large Scale Immersive Visualization, Derrick Turner, Daniel P. Ames
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The use of large-scale stereoscopic immersive visualization environments is growing globally as a supplement to field work in environmental science and engineering. Such systems typically include large-scale stereoscopic displays and head/hand tracking to facilitate an immersive user experience. These components can add significant cost and complication to such a system that may not be warranted if the components do not significantly improve the user experience. This paper presents a study conducted in a large-scale visualization environment called the VuePod, to help determine the relative value of head-tracking and stereoscopic technologies in terms of improved data interpretation. Forty-eight individuals were recruited …
Benefits Of The Use Of Natural User Interfaces In Water Simulations, Gennadii Donchyts, Fedor Baart, Arthur Van Dam, Bert Jagers
Benefits Of The Use Of Natural User Interfaces In Water Simulations, Gennadii Donchyts, Fedor Baart, Arthur Van Dam, Bert Jagers
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The use of natural user interfaces instead of conventional ones has become a reality with the emergence of 3D motion sensing technologies. However, some problems are still unsolved (for example, no haptic or tactile feedback); so this technology requires careful evaluation before the users can benefit from it. We argue that the best benefits can be achieved when these natural user interface technologies are combined with classical computer interaction devices such as mouse and keyboard. In our demonstration, we will show how the LEAP Motion controller can be applied in environmental modeling when combined with the shallow water flow model …
The Use Of Object-Oriented Programming Concepts For Documenting A Model Ensemble, Georgii A. Alexandrov
The Use Of Object-Oriented Programming Concepts For Documenting A Model Ensemble, Georgii A. Alexandrov
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The spread of cloud computing services gives community modelling a reasonable opportunity to become a reality in scientific research. However, even if models will be deployed in clouds, and model codes will be open for re-use, there will be little progress in community modelling in the lack of consensus standards for model documentation. This paper is to discuss a conceptual framework for developing such standards. The proposed conceptual framework is based on the idea that a new model is often a modification of an old one, and hence, the similarities between the models of the same environmental process could be …
Evaluation Of Metamodeling Techniques On A Co2 Injection Simulation Study, Jared Schuetter, Srikanta Mishra, Doug Mooney
Evaluation Of Metamodeling Techniques On A Co2 Injection Simulation Study, Jared Schuetter, Srikanta Mishra, Doug Mooney
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Full-physics models for geologic carbon sequestration applications can be time-consuming to run. As a result, optimization of a particular response over a range of predictor values can be difficult. A common approach is to use a small number of simulation runs to develop a metamodel that can approximate the system response with much less computing time; this metamodel can then be used for optimization. Choosing a metamodeling approach is not always straightforward, and it can also be difficult to determine how well a model is fitting after it is trained. Here, we present a case study for a CO2 …