DARPA Urban Life Model

Lead Investigators

  • Andreas Züfle (GMU)
  • Dieter Pfoser (GMU)
  • Andrew Crooks (UBuffalo)
  • Carola Wenk (Tulane)


Student and Senior Collaborators

  • Joonseok Kim (GMU postdoctoral researcher 2018-2020)
  • Hamdi Kavak (GMU research associate 2018-2020)
  • Umar Manzoor (Tulane postdoctoral researcher 2018-2019)
  • Hyunjee Jin (GMU postdoctoral researcher 2019)
  • Chris Rouly (GMU postdoctoral researcher 2019)


Project Dates

2018-2020


Summary

This project has generated several agent-based urban social models for DARPA’s Ground Truth program. The original model aimed to simulate a small town’s patterns of life model based on the population’s needs and showcased how such needs can impact social constructs. We have created several different versions of the model and published papers contributing to different aspects of modeling & simulation, and data science aspects. If interested, check the Züfle et al. (2021) paper below, which is published in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.


Publications & Presentations

  • Urban life: a model of people and places
    A. Züfle, C. Wenk, D. Pfoser, C. Crooks, J-S. Kim, H. Kavak, U. Manzoor, J. Hyunjee,
    Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2021, 10.1007/s10588-021-09348-7
    [Paper] [BibTeX]
  • Towards Large-Scale Agent-Based Geospatial Simulation
    U. Manzoor, H. Kavak, J-S. Kim, A. Crooks, D. Pfoser, A. Züfle, and C. Wenk
    2021 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Washington, DC, USA (Online), July 6-9, 2021
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Location-Based Social Network Data Generation Based on Patterns of Life (~23% full paper acceptance rate)
    J-S. Kim, H. Jin, H. Kavak, O.C. Rouly, A. Crooks, D. Pfoser, C. Wenk and A. Züfle
    The 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Versailles, France (Online), June 30-July 03, 2020
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Simulating Urban Patterns of Life: A Geo-Social Data Generation Framework
    J-S. Kim, H. Kavak, U. Manzoor, A. Crooks, D. Pfoser, C. Wenk and A. Züfle
    2019 ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference, Chicago, IL, July 10-13, 2018
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Location-Based Social Simulation (Best vision paper runner-up)
    H. Kavak, J-S. Kim, A. Crooks, D. Pfoser, C. Wenk and A. Züfle
    16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2019), Vienna, Austria, August 19-21, 2019
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Advancing simulation experimentation capabilities with runtime interventions
    J-S. Kim, H. Kavak, U. Manzoor and A. Züfle
    2019 Spring Simulation Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 29 - May 01, 2019
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Location-Based Social Simulation for Prescriptive Analytics of Disease Spread
    J-S Kim, H. Kavak, C.O. Rouly, H. Jin, A. Crooks, D. Pfoser, C. Wenk, and A. Züfle SIGSPATIAL Special, Volume 12 Issue 1, doi:10.1145/3292390.3292397
    [Paper] [BibTex]
  • Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development
    J-S Kim, H. Kavak and A. Crooks
    SIGSPATIAL Special, Volume 10 Issue 2, doi:10.1145/3292390.3292397
    [Paper] [BibTex]


Funding

  • DARPA cooperative agreement No.HR00111820005.

Last updated on Jan 27, 2022.