Database Support for Simulation Management - Lecture outline

Facilitator: Howard Beck, PhD, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department

Database Support for Simulation Management

• Problems in Simulation Management
  - Representing models at abstract levels
  - Documentation of model structure, equations, and symbols
  - Model base
  - Connection to data sources
  - Automatic simulation implementation
• Ontology-based Simulation
  - Ontology Management Systems
  - Ontology languages
  - Reasoners
  - Physical storage management
  - Representing models using ontologies
  - Authoring tools
  - Code generators (XML, Java)
  - Supporting information
• Applications
  - Bioprocessing simulator
  - Crop Water and Nutrient Management
  - Crocodile River
  - eLearning support
  - 3D support
  
  This lecture is available at http://lyra.ifas.ufl.edu/seminars/SimFLCSeminarBeck.html
  This lecture is available as podcast, a video (36 MB)

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