Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM)
Abstract
The Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM) program is developing technologies and tools for the agile creation, sustainment, and enhancement of complex models and simulators to enable knowledge extraction and data-informed decision making in diverse scientific domains and military missions. Current modeling and simulation pipelines do not maintain the relevant inputs, assumptions, and modeling choices made during development, while rapidly changing knowledge, semantically-opaque models, and black-box simulators make pipelined development nearly impossible. ASKEM enables a new paradigm for scientific modeling analogous to the transition in software development from the lengthy waterfall model to agile, continual Development and Operations (DevOps). ASKEM modeling automation tools 1) extract model components from documents and code while abstracting implementation details like math framework, language, and platform; 2) compose distinct model and simulator components; and 3) integrate all elements and processes in an extensible workbench that addresses the entire modeling and simulation lifecycle. ASKEM tools enable experts to maintain, reuse, and adapt large collections of heterogeneous data, knowledge, and models with traceability across knowledge sources, model assumptions, and model fitness and thereby bring agile, pipelined development to modeling and simulation. ASKEM technologies will be applied to multiple use cases to drive scalability and generality.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 5d61b98243b67ef854fec0490a2d8976