TY - GEN
T1 - A user interface for large-scale demographic simulation
AU - Montanola-Sales, Cristina
AU - Casanovas-Garcia, Josep
AU - Onggo, Bhakti S.S.
AU - Li, Zengxiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/2/9
Y1 - 2015/2/9
N2 - Agent-based modeling is one of the promising modeling tools that can be used in the study of population dynamics. Two of the main obstacles hindering the use of agent-based simulation in practice are its scalability when the analysis requires large-scale models as in policy research, and its ease-of-use especially for users with no programming experience. While there has been a significant work on the scalability issue, ease-of-use aspect has not been addressed in the same intensity. This paper presents a graphical user interface designed for a simulation tool which allows modelers with no programming background to specify agent-based demographic models and run them on parallel environments. The interface eases the definition of models to describe individual and group dynamics processes with both qualitative and quantitative data. The main advantage is to allow users to transparently run the models on high performance computing infrastructures.
AB - Agent-based modeling is one of the promising modeling tools that can be used in the study of population dynamics. Two of the main obstacles hindering the use of agent-based simulation in practice are its scalability when the analysis requires large-scale models as in policy research, and its ease-of-use especially for users with no programming experience. While there has been a significant work on the scalability issue, ease-of-use aspect has not been addressed in the same intensity. This paper presents a graphical user interface designed for a simulation tool which allows modelers with no programming background to specify agent-based demographic models and run them on parallel environments. The interface eases the definition of models to describe individual and group dynamics processes with both qualitative and quantitative data. The main advantage is to allow users to transparently run the models on high performance computing infrastructures.
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Demographic simulation
KW - Parallel simulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937859243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CloudCom.2014.46
DO - 10.1109/CloudCom.2014.46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937859243
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom
SP - 723
EP - 726
BT - Proceedings - 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2014
Y2 - 15 December 2014 through 18 December 2014
ER -