Scalable Models for Patterns of Life

نویسندگان

  • Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik
  • Sae Lynne Schatz
  • Randolph M. Jones
  • Kathleen Bartlett
  • Robert E. Wray
چکیده

Patterns of life (POL) are emergent properties of complex social systems such as neighborhoods or even cities (Schatz et al. 2012). In such systems, observable regularities manifest from the interactions of individuals’ behaviors and social norms. Simultaneously, these patterns of life impose structure on individual decisions. For example, a pattern of rush hour traffic arises from drivers’ decisions to commute at a certain time. Knowledge of rush hour influences individuals’ departure times. Accurately modeling POL is not only an academic pursuit; complex training and analysis efforts rely upon these models. As an example, social and cultural experts analyzed patterns of life in order to locate Osama bin Laden. These analysts, without any visual confirmation, cited the ways his household deviated from the “normal” pattern of life in the neighborhood, behaving much more secretively than his suburban neighbors (Preston 2012). Building on such social and cultural expertise, computational modeling of POL offers significant potential to continue extending POL’s practical application and theoretical study. In industry, POL models might support decisions about marketing, logistics, network security, or building design. Military and law-enforcement models could support observational and small-unit training, intrusion detection, emergency planning, or community relations. Computational POL models will benefit academic researchers by giving them new tools to generate and validate theories about complex sociocultural patterns. Finally, POL presents an interesting computational modeling challenge for research in many AI fields because of its complex, multi-level interaction. POL modeling differs from standard agent-based modeling in that not only individual behaviors, but also their collective emergent patterns, are targets of study. At the same time, the behavior of any single individual is potentially important. As a specific example, the Virtual Observation Platform (VOP) is an immersive simulation designed to train mili-

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Dynamic configuration and collaborative scheduling in supply chains based on scalable multi-agent architecture

Due to diversified and frequently changing demands from customers, technological advances and global competition, manufacturers rely on collaboration with their business partners to share costs, risks and expertise. How to take advantage of advancement of technologies to effectively support operations and create competitive advantage is critical for manufacturers to survive. To respond to these...

متن کامل

Authorization models for secure information sharing: a survey and research agenda

This article presents a survey of authorization models and considers their 'fitness-for-purpose' in facilitating information sharing. Network-supported information sharing is an important technical capability that underpins collaboration in support of dynamic and unpredictable activities such as emergency response, national security, infrastructure protection, supply chain integration and emerg...

متن کامل

Eating Time Modulations of Physiology and Health: Life Lessons from Human and Ruminant Models

Tissue nutrient supply may be synchronized with endogenous physiological rhythms to optimize animal and human health. Glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity have endogenous rhythms that are not essentially dependent on food type and eating. Human glucose tolerance declines as day comes into night. Based on such evolutionary findings, large evening meals must be avoided to reduce risks of vis...

متن کامل

Parallelization of Rich Models for Steganalysis of Digital Images using a CUDA-based Approach

There are several different methods to make an efficient strategy for steganalysis of digital images. A very powerful method in this area is rich model consisting of a large number of diverse sub-models in both spatial and transform domain that should be utilized. However, the extraction of a various types of features from an image is so time consuming in some steps, especially for training pha...

متن کامل

A Tandem Scalable Microwave-Assisted Williamson Alkyl Aryl Ether Synthesis under Mild Conditions

An efficient tandem synthesis of alkyl aryl ethers, including valuable building blocks of dialdehyde and dinitro groups under microwave irradiation and solvent free conditions on potassium carbonate as a mild solid base has been developed. A series of alkyl aryl ethers were obtained from alcohols in excellent yields by following the Williamson ether synthesis protocol under practical mild condi...

متن کامل

Models of Juvenile Procedure in modern Iran's criminal law

Studying and exploring the patterns governing each subject leads to a systematic categorization of that subject and a better explanation of the developments of that subject in the course of history. Responses to the delinquency of children and adolescents in response to the delicate and vulnerable attitude of these people has undergone various developments and has seen various policy-makings by...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013