[Population Modeling] Introduction

[Jacob Barhak]

Thanks Aaron,

Aaron is a bit too modest here.

His tools are very important for population modeling. In fact he and his
tools gave a solution within one day of work on how to properly generate
populations to match statistics and handle skewed populations.

These are basic evolutionary computational tools that on their operators on
their own may be used as population modeling techniques.

Also note that our definition of population modeling is quite broad.

I will add several quotations that will describe our work better in a
separate post.

If anyone knows other developers of basic techniques and tools important
for population modelers, please do invite them to join this list.

          Jacob
On Jan 6, 2015 4:57 PM, "Aaron Garrett" <aaron.lee.garrett at gmail.com> wrote:

> My name is Aaron Garrett. I am on the computer science faculty at
> Jacksonville State University. I don't normally deal with population
> modeling specifically. My focus is on computational intelligence,
> particularly evolutionary computation in optimization. I created and
> maintain a Python library for computational intelligence/evolutionary
> computation called inspyred (
> https://pythonhosted.org/inspyred/overview.html,
> https://github.com/aarongarrett/inspyred). The only population modeling
> (if it can be considered such) that I have done has been simulating
> evacuees from a structure when trying to optimize the egress locations for
> safety and timeliness.
>
> Muhdi, R., Garrett, A., Agarwal, R., Davis, J., Dozier, G., Umphress, D.
> (2006). The application of evolutionary computation in evacuation planning.
> Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (pp.
> 600-605). IEEE.
> http://inspired.jsu.edu/docs/Muhdi_et_al_ITSC2006.pdf
>
> Aaron
>
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