Artem Konev, Jürgen Waser, Berhard Sadransky, Daniel Cornel, Rui A.P. Perdigao, Zsolt Horvath, Meister 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. [Paper]
@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 Meister 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, issn = "1077-2626", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics", number = "12", volume = "20", 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/", }
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