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Artificial intelligence for modeling complex systems: taming the complexity of expert models to improve decision making

Abstract

Major societal and environmental challenges involve complex systems that have diverse multi-scale interacting processes. Consider, for example, how droughts and water reserves affect crop production and how agriculture and industrial needs affect water quality and availability. Preventive measures, such as delaying planting dates and adopting new agricultural practices in response to changing weather patterns, can reduce the damage caused by natural processes. Understanding how these natural and human processes affect one another allows forecasting the effects of undesirable situations and study interventions to take preventive measures. For many of these processes, there are expert models that incorporate state-of-the-art theories and knowledge to quantify a system's response to a diversity of conditions. A major challenge for efficient modeling is the diversity of modeling approaches across …

Metadata

publication
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 11 (2), 1-49, 2021
year
2021
publication date
2021/7/21
authors
Yolanda Gil, Daniel Garijo, Deborah Khider, Craig A Knoblock, Varun Ratnakar, Maximiliano Osorio, Hernán Vargas, Minh Pham, Jay Pujara, Basel Shbita, Binh Vu, Yao-Yi Chiang, Dan Feldman, Yijun Lin, Hayley Song, Vipin Kumar, Ankush Khandelwal, Michael Steinbach, Kshitij Tayal, Shaoming Xu, Suzanne A Pierce, Lissa Pearson, Daniel Hardesty-Lewis, Ewa Deelman, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Rajiv Mayani, Armen R Kemanian, Yuning Shi, Lorne Leonard, Scott Peckham, Maria Stoica, Kelly Cobourn, Zeya Zhang, Christopher Duffy, Lele Shu
link
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3453172
resource_link
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3453172
journal
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
volume
11
issue
2
pages
1-49
publisher
ACM