Artem Konev, Jürgen Waser, Berhard Sadransky, Daniel Cornel, Rui A.P. Perdigao, Zsolt Horvath, Eduard Gröller
Run Watchers: Automatic Simulation-Based Decision Support in Flood Management
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12):1873-1882, December 2014. [
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- Publication Type: Journal Paper with Conference Talk
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- Date: December 2014
- Journal: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Volume: 20
- Number: 12
- Location: Paris, France
- Lecturer: Artem Konev
- ISSN: 1077-2626
- Event: Euro Vis 2014
- Booktitle: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics/Proceedings of VAST 2014
- Publisher: IEEE
- Conference date: 9. November 2014 – 14. November 2014
- Pages: 1873 – 1882
- Keywords: visual evidence, Disaster management, simulation control, storytelling, decision making
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a simulation-based approach to design protection plans for flood events. Existing solutions require a lot of computation time for an exhaustive search, or demand for a time-consuming expert supervision and steering. We present a faster alternative based on the automated control of multiple parallel simulation runs. Run Watchers are dedicated system components authorized to monitor simulation runs, terminate them, and start new runs originating from existing ones according to domain-specific rules. This approach allows for a more efficient traversal of the search space and overall performance improvements due to a re-use of simulated states and early termination of failed runs. In the course of search, Run Watchers generate large and complex decision trees. We visualize the entire set of decisions made by Run Watchers using interactive, clustered timelines. In addition, we present visualizations to explain the resulting response plans. Run Watchers automatically generate storyboards to convey plan details and to justify the underlying decisions, including those which leave particular buildings unprotected. We evaluate our solution with domain experts.Additional Files and Images
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@article{Groeller_2014_RWA,
title = "Run Watchers: Automatic Simulation-Based Decision Support in
Flood Management",
author = "Artem Konev and J\"{u}rgen Waser and Berhard Sadransky and
Daniel Cornel and Rui A.P. Perdigao and Zsolt Horvath and
Eduard Gr\"{o}ller",
year = "2014",
abstract = "In this paper, we introduce a simulation-based approach to
design protection plans for flood events. Existing solutions
require a lot of computation time for an exhaustive search,
or demand for a time-consuming expert supervision and
steering. We present a faster alternative based on the
automated control of multiple parallel simulation runs. Run
Watchers are dedicated system components authorized to
monitor simulation runs, terminate them, and start new runs
originating from existing ones according to domain-specific
rules. This approach allows for a more efficient traversal
of the search space and overall performance improvements due
to a re-use of simulated states and early termination of
failed runs. In the course of search, Run Watchers generate
large and complex decision trees. We visualize the entire
set of decisions made by Run Watchers using interactive,
clustered timelines. In addition, we present visualizations
to explain the resulting response plans. Run Watchers
automatically generate storyboards to convey plan details
and to justify the underlying decisions, including those
which leave particular buildings unprotected. We evaluate
our solution with domain experts.",
month = dec,
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics",
volume = "20",
number = "12",
issn = "1077-2626",
booktitle = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics/Proceedings of VAST 2014",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "1873--1882",
keywords = "visual evidence, Disaster management, simulation control,
storytelling, decision making",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2014/Groeller_2014_RWA/",
}