Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Systems

ABSTRACT: The state-of-the-art method for studying transportation systems is simulation based modeling which affords the opportunity to evaluate control and design strategies without committing expensive resources to implement alternate strategies in the field. Major efforts have been invested in developing traffic simulation systems during the past several decades. The usefulness of these tools will be significantly enhanced if they can be used in an integrated manner to investigate scenarios involving domain
aspects modeled by different tools.We begin the talk with a brief review of current traffic simulation integration systems. We will then discuss limitations of these systems. To address these limitations, an extensible semantic integration framework for transportation modeling and simulation is presented. We conclude the talk with some ongoing and future work regarding semantic web and workflow based methodologies in this area. Lunch will be served, so please note that you must RSVP to: Joey Pulford, via pulford@usc.edu by 12 noon on Wednesday, Dec. 2nd if you would like a meal. Please also arrive at Noon in order to guarantee yourself enough time to eat, because the Seminar will start promptly at 12:30pm. See you there!Viktor K. Prasanna (ceng.usc.edu/~prasanna) is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He is the executive director of the USC-Infosys Center for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST). He is also a member of the USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems including networked sensor systems, embedded systems, configurable architectures and high performance computing. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers during 2003-06. Prasanna was the founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. He is the steering chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (www.hipc.org). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He is a recipient of 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award from the Pennsylvania State University.

Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - -100

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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