题目：Large-scale Dynamic Data Driven Simulation for Wildfire Management
时间：2012年6月27日(周三)14:00
地点：智能系统与控制研究所(教十八)304
报告人：Dr. Xiaolin Hu, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University

Abstract:
The recent occurrence of catastrophic wildfires highlighted the serious threat posed by fires to communities and ecosystems throughout the world. The complexity of wildfire management arises from the dynamic interactions and dependencies among multiple system components, including wildfire behavior and weather prediction, real time data assimilation, and firefighting resource management. To achieve effective wildfire containment, decision-making support tools that integrate all these components are needed. In this talk, I will present a large-scale spatial temporal data driven simulation system within an integrated simulation, optimization, and data assimilation framework for wildfire management. This system uses probabilistic techniques to continually assimilate real time sensor data into wildfire simulations for better analysis and prediction of wildfire behavior. The research challenges related to large-scale spatial temporal data driven simulation will be presented and demonstrations of wildfire simulation and data assimilation will be provided. Potential application of dynamic data driven simulation to other systems, including traffic systems and smart building systems, will also be discussed.

Bio:
Dr. Xiaolin Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona in 2004. His research interests include modeling and simulation theory and application, agent and multi-agent systems, and complex systems science. He has served as program chairs for several international conferences/symposiums in the field of modeling and simulation, and is associate editors for Simulation: Transaction of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing (IJMSSC), and International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS). Dr. Hu is a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award recipient.