Award Abstract #0325846
ITR/NGS: Synthetic Environment for Continuous Experimentation

NSF Org:	CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	August 22, 2003
Latest Amendment Date:	June 26, 2005
Award Number:	0325846
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Anita J. LaSalle CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	September 1, 2003
Expires:	August 31, 2007 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$1178446
Investigator(s):	Alok Chaturvedi alok@purdue.edu (Principal Investigator) Elias Houstis (Co-Principal Investigator) Charalambos Aliprantis (Co-Principal Investigator) Shailendra Mehta (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Purdue University Young Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907 765/494-4600
NSF Program(s):	ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC, 9215, 2884, 1652
Program Element Code(s):	1687

ABSTRACT

The study of bio-terror threats require a significant improvement in our capabilities to analyze the human response to an attack, both at the level of the citizens (mobility, infection, and the feeling of well-being) and at the level of responders and policy makers (coordination, control, planning, and policy formulation). This project will address these issues using a geography based synthetic environment with artificial and human agents. Computational models of artificial agents' position, mobility, infection-susceptibility and the state of well-being will be developed. Intuitive interfaces will be provided to human agents to carry out the complex coordination roles. Together, their behaviors will be used to analyze how a bio-terror attack may spread through the population and how its impact might be contained by different intervention strategies. We will use this platform to conduct new and innovative research. The results of such exercises will also be used to help develop, test, analyze, and implement public policies and operating procedures. Once implemented, the models will be extended to include coordination amongst responders in multiple jurisdictions and for multiple pathogens.

An important aspect of the work is to develop an agent-based scalable software architecture for tera-scale, grid computing, and to virtually test the prorotype technology and it's effectiveness on heterogeneous resource availability environements requiring real-tim eresponse and heterogeneous platform assemblies comprising of diverse systems, such as GPS, wireless communications, and enabling decision

support during crisis situations.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

C. D. Aliprantis, G. Camera, and D. Puzzello. "Anonymous markets and monetary trading," Journal of Monetary Economics, v.54, 2007, p. 1905-1928.

C. D. Aliprantis, G. Camera, and D. Puzzello. "Contagion equilibria in a monetary model," Econometrica, v.75, 2007, p. 277-282.

C. D. Aliprantis, G. Camera, and D. Puzzello. "Matching and anonymity," Economic Theory, v.29, 2006, p. 415-432.

C. D. Aliprantis, G. Camera, and D. Puzzello,. "Bilateral matching and Latin squares,," Games and Economic Behavior, v.59, 2007, p. 1-16.

C. D. Aliprantis, G. Camera, and D. Puzzello,. "Bilateral matching and Latin squares," Journal of Mathematical, v.43, 2007, p. 99-114.

C. D. Aliprantis, M. Florenzano and R. Tourky. "Linear and non-linear price decentralization," Journal of Economic Theory, v.121, 2005, p. 51.

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