A Service Manager for UrbanSim
by
Jason Tan
The UrbanSim project explores software-based methods of forecasting
regional growth, development, land use, and transit over 20-30 years
using models that simulate different actors and processes in the urban
environment. At the core of UrbanSim services are simulations that run
on large input datasets representing a region, and outputting datasets
recalculated via stastical equations that model an agent/process. In the
past, other services (i.e. UBuildIt indicators, OpenEV maps) have run
simulations through code, which makes it difficult for technical
modelers and interested citizens to adapt and easily use UrbanSim. My
research focuses on designing and implementing a simulation service
manager that encapsulates simulation functionality and hides its
implementation/complexity from the user. Technical challenges include
software engineering of large, stochastic systems, and packaging such
systems into more user-friendly interfaces.
Advised by Alan Borning
CSE 403
Wednesday
February 22, 2006
3:30 - 4:20 pm