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Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar

Speaker: Hadi Meidani,, Ph.D., USC-Astani Civil Engineering

Talk Title: Toward Smart Cities: Uncertainty Management for Complex Systems of Systems

Abstract: Today, cities are under extreme stress due to their growing population and ageing infrastructure. To alleviate this stress, a more efficient and sustainable management of urban systems is needed. To this end, the myriad of Big Data from sensors and mobile devices together with efficient computational tools can help improve our descriptive and predictive capacities and subsequently materialize the idea of Smart Cities. A true Smart City requires coordinating social systems, transportation networks, and water and electricity distribution systems. In this presentation, I will focus on the systems-of-systems approach for the management of Smart Cities, and describe our research contributions to the uncertainty management of these systems of systems. First, I will discuss the representation of the uncertainties in the study of systems of systems. These uncertainties can incur from inaccurate input-output models, erroneous mathematical approximations, and data incompleteness. As an example, I will describe our probabilistic model for Markov transition matrices and its application in multiscale energy demand modeling. Second, I will share our algorithmic development for efficient propagation of these uncertainties through numerical models to obtain random performance metrics. In closing, I will elaborate on how our efforts can enhance decisions related to the robust optimal management of Smart Cities
as complex systems of systems.
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Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Evangeline Reyes