The Model Analyst's Toolkit: Scientific Model Development, Analysis, and Validation

Abstract

One of the most powerful things scientists can do is to create models that describe the world around us. Models help scientists organize their theories and suggest additional experiments to run. The proposed research effort builds on and extends the work of the previous ONR-funded Validation Coverage Toolkit for HSCB Models project, [ONR contract N0014-09-C-0463]. The overall objectives of the ongoing research program are: (1) Help scientists create, analyze, refine, and validate rich scientific models. (2) Help computational scientists verify the correctness of their implementations of those models. (3) Help users of scientific models, including decision makers within the US Navy, to use those models correctly and with confidence (4) Use a combination of human-driven data visualization and analysis, automated data analysis, and machine learning to leverage human expertise in model building with automated analyses of complex models against large datasets Specific objectives for the current effort include: (A) Fluid temporal correlation analysis. (B) Automated suggestions for model construction and refinement. (C) Data validation and repair. (D) System prototyping. (E) Evaluation of applicability to multiple scientific domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619959

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  • Scott N. Reilly

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Contracts
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Robotics
  • Social Sciences
  • User Interface
  • Validation

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML