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DSRT
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Switching to High Gear: Opportunities for Grand-Scale Real-Time Parallel Simulations
The recent emergence of dramatically large computational power, spanning desktops with multicore processors and multiple graphics cards to supercomputers with 105 processor cores,...
Kalyan S. Perumalla
DGO
2010
148views Education» more  DGO 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting agile modeling through experimentation in an integrated urban simulation framework
Decisions regarding major urban transportation projects and land use policies are frequently political and controversial, as well as having significant economic, social, and envir...
Travis Kriplean, Alan Borning, Paul Waddell, Chris...
MTA
2011
184views Hardware» more  MTA 2011»
13 years 25 days ago
Real-time control of individual agents for crowd simulation
This paper presents a novel approach for individual agent’s motion simulation in real-time virtual environments. In our model, we focus on addressing two problems: 1) the control...
Yunbo Rao, Leiting Chen, Qihe Liu, Weiyao Lin, Yan...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Simulating Individual-Based Models of Epidemics in Hierarchical Networks
Current mathematical modeling methods for the spreading of infectious diseases are too simplified and do not scale well. We present the Simulator of Epidemic Evolution in Complex ...
Rick Quax, David A. Bader, Peter M. A. Sloot