VLab Forum Members,
Just a quick reminder that the
forth Roebber Lecture Series presentation will occur today, April
22nd, at 2:00 – 3:00pm (EDT). The presentation features a talk by
Dr. Paul Roebber titled "Agent-based Models". We hope you
can attend.
To participate in the lecture,
please register
for the webinar.
Abstract:
The National Weather Service (NWS)
has a long history of leveraging available data in support of
weather forecasting efforts. These efforts are ongoing and with the
advent of more advanced techniques (e.g., machine learning), the NWS
is in the process of determining where and how to apply them.
This series of four lectures is
designed to provide some background on these techniques. No
assumptions will be made regarding the statistical background of
participants. The fourth lecture in this series will cover a
modeling technique that is quite different from the methods
traditionally used in the atmospheric sciences: agent-based modeling (ABM).
ABMs are a form of computer
simulation in which a system is governed by the interaction of
individual “agents” which follow a set of “local” rules. The
behavior of the system emerges from the collective behavior of the
individual agents. Such models have a natural connection to human
decision-making and the social sciences and in the decision support
context of the NWS, such techniques can be used as a means for
understanding the context in which users employ forecast
information. This bottom-up interaction of multiple systems at
multiple scales, with concomitant emergent properties, can allow for
a deeper understanding of complex systems, such as the weather
forecast and warning system employed by the NWS. In this lecture, we
will discuss the general concept of ABMs and provide some examples.
Agenda:
You can find the agenda for the
Forum at the following link:
Agenda
Slides:
You can find the slide deck for the
Forum at the following link:
Presentation Slides
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The Roebber Lectures
