Philosophical and Theoretic Underpinnings of Simulation Visualization Rhetoric and Their Practical Implications

Collins, Andrew J.; Ball, D'An Knowles

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“…This paper focuses on the presentation of monetary Brought to you by | University of Iowa Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 11:54 AM cost to aid the decision-makers understanding. The authors have taken great care, understanding that the use of rhetoric is subjective and has the potential to be manipulated by visualizations (Kostelnick 2008;Collins and Knowles Ball 2013) and statistics (Huff 1954).…”

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“…Decision-makers can be "turned off" by the display of statistics and other numerical data (Collins and Knowles Ball 2013) and, as such, it is important to try and display the data in a user friendly way. Graphics are one approach to achieve this and they provide rapid accessibility to the results from the analysis.…”

Section: Graphical Analysis Of the Regions Travelmentioning

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Analysis of the Cost of Emergency Managers’ Meeting Load: A Hampton Road Case-study

Collins

Flanagan

Ezell

2015

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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Preparation for a disaster is not something that can be done by a single organization thus there is a need for coordination between them. Meetings and joint exercises are one means of coordination used by the emergency management community. Meetings and exercises take time, including transportation of personnel and arrangements, and time is money. With limited budgets, emergency managers need to make hard decisions about how their time is allocated. This paper describes a cost model for meeting analysis and discusses a case study that looks at the holistic time spent on meetings and exercises, by personnel, for the Hampton Roads Region of Virginia. A novel way is used to display this expenditure, e.g., it is shown in terms of monetary cost instead of temporal cost. This analysis highlighted some unexpected results, i.e., the small number of personnel involved in multiple working group meetings and high level of travel costs between the HR and the state capital, Richmond. This cost model approach may provide emergency managers with better mechanisms to show their meetings costs to senior leadership.

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Analysis of the Cost of Emergency Managers’ Meeting Load: A Hampton Road Case-study

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Flanagan

Ezell

2015

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

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“…However, integration with these different techniques compounds the usual questions of implementation correctness and modeling validity. Too often a cultural preference for fancy computer graphics over well-constructed algorithms and equations has led to the questionable use of visualization rhetoric in simulation outputs, especially commercial packages (Collins & Knowles Ball 2013). Thus there is an emerging motivation for standards in ABMS to combat potential misuse of the approach.…”

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A Call to Arms: Standards for Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

Collins¹,

Petty²,

Vernon-Bido³

et al. 2015

JASSS

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Standards are as old as civilization itself and they are vital to human development. Standards touch almost every part of our lives, from the water we drink to the language used to write this article. A sign of a good standard is one that we do not notice. Good standards exist and so do processes and organizations to create and maintain them. As agent-based modeling and simulation matures as a methodology, a discussion of standards applicable to it becomes increasingly important. Descriptive standards for agent-based models, such as the Overview, Design concepts, and Details protocol and agent-based extensions to the Unified Modeling Language, have already begun to emerge. Software tools for implementing such models, such as Netlogo and Repast Simphony, are increasingly well-known and have the potential to become de facto standards among the wider scientific community for agent-based simulation. Based on the findings of a series of workshops that brought together experts throughout the modeling and simulation community, we argue that agent-based modeling and simulation is no different from the other emerging technical subjects in the sense that standards, both existing and new, may be applicable to it, and that the community should both adopt existing standards that are relevant and exploit the already existing standards processes and organizations to develop new ones.

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“…In the context of simulation, visualization is often the first step towards analyzing results and the decision-making processes that follow. Authors in [57] argue that most people, besides model developers, only see a simulation through the visualization of its results. They even argue that visualization of results is what matters most to those outside of the modeling and simulation (M&S) community.…”

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“…In other words, the presentation of results is more important than the simulation itself. Their reasoning is that, for external stakeholders, visualization and analysis is a way to verify and validate the results; it increases transparency in M&S. Within the M&S community, visualization can be a valuable tool to support the verification and validation of models through comparison and animation [58], [59] and to communicate results [57]. It can be used as an additional way of identifying model problems and therefore becomes another tool in the model development cycle.…”

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A Web Based Architecture to Operationalize Geospatial Simulation Environments

St-Aubin¹

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Simulation is inherently multi-disciplinary. It requires knowledge about the system under study, expertise in simulation theory to define models and programming skills to implement models. Geospatial simulation requires an additional layer of expertise in topology, geospatial data structures, spatial analysis, computational geometry, and other related topics. Commercial modeling and simulation software can be used to provide an environment to facilitate simulation studies for users. However, these software tend to be narrowly scoped to specific business applications and tightly couple model and simulator.I am first and foremost grateful to Professor Gabriel Wainer for giving me an opportunity to accomplish my research under his supervision. I would not have successfully completed it without your guidance, mentorship, and dedication. On several occasions in the past 5 years, you were able to express the words of encouragement I needed to keep going. I am also thankful for my colleagues and friends at the Advanced Real-Time

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Philosophical and Theoretic Underpinnings of Simulation Visualization Rhetoric and Their Practical Implications

Cited by 6 publications

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Analysis of the Cost of Emergency Managers’ Meeting Load: A Hampton Road Case-study

Analysis of the Cost of Emergency Managers’ Meeting Load: A Hampton Road Case-study

A Call to Arms: Standards for Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

A Web Based Architecture to Operationalize Geospatial Simulation Environments

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