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Research Areas:

   Energy, Environment, and
   Economics

   National and Homeland
   Security

   Infrastructure Assurance

   Emergency Preparedness

   Social Dynamics

   Policy Analysis


Core Capabilities:

   Systems Analysis

   Modeling, Simulation, and
   Visualization

   Complex Adaptive Systems

   Decision Support and Risk
   Management

   Information Sciences


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  • Meet BD+C's 40 Under 40 class of 2013 Leah Guzowski was selected as one of the Building Design +
    Construction (BD+C) 40 under 40 award winners. The awards
    recognize individuals who have demonstrated excellence in
    their career, service to their professions and communities,
    and active participation in charitable work.

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  • 2013 Winner of the Active RFID Contest Case Study: Argonne's ARG-US RFID
    is the 2013 Winner of the Active
    RFID Contest conducted by the
    Association for Automatic
    Identification and Mobility (AIM)
    RFID Experts Group.
    See www.aimglobal.org

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  • Energy Zones Study for Eastern Interconnection A web-based mapping tool that enables users to identify potential clean energy resource areas within the
    Eastern Interconnection has been publicly released. The interactive EZ Mapping Tool allows energy planners
    and other stakeholders to analyze energy resource availability data and apply various screening factors to
    identify areas conducive for developing clean power generation.

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  • Modeling and Analysis of Value of Advanced Pumped Storage Hydropower in the U.S. In April 2012 a project team led by Argonne National
    Laboratory began a collaborative research project on
    improving the high-resolution computer modeling and
    simulation of advanced pumped-storage hydropower
    (PSH) facilities.

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  • The Argentine Pampas, one of the main agricultural areas in the world,
    recently has undergone significant changes in land use and structural
    characteristics of agricultural production systems. Concerns about the
    environmental and societal impacts of the changes motivated development
    of an agent-based model (ABM) to gain insight on processes underlying
    recent observed patterns.

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  • This paper is to describe development of the features and functions of
    Repast Simphony, the widely used, free, and open source
    agent-based modeling environment that builds on the Repast 3 library.

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  • Coveted RFID AwardArgonne/DOE ARG-US Radio Frequency Identification Technology
    Wins Prestigious Award, Receives International Recognition                

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  • Making it Real: Mock Media in ExercisesEmergency preparedness training now regularly simulates interactions with news
    media role players during a "crisis" as a standard element of such exercises.

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  • Wind Turbine FarmTo improve wind power forecasting and its use in power system
    and electricity market operations Argonne National Laboratory
    has assembled a team of experts in wind power forecasting,
    electricity market modeling, wind farm development, and power
    system operations.

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  • Argonne's ABMS tutorials remain popular resources At the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, Argonne researchers
    Charles Macal and Mike North gave a popular tutorial on
    agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS). Seven years later,
    their talk remains a valuable resource to the modeling community,
    recently reemerging as the conference website's most popular
    download over the past six weeks.

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  • Extreme-scale Scientific Data StoresExperiments at the frontiers of particle physics are beginning to
    build scientific data stores at scales of hundreds of petabytes,
    and Argonne is at the forefront...

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Leah Guzowski is one of the Building Design + Construction (BD+C) 40 under 40 award winners.16 2013 Winner of the Active RFID Contest15 Energy Zones Study for Eastern Interconnection14 Modeling and Analysis of Value of Advanced Pumped Storage Hydropower in the U.S.13 0 Complex adaptive systems modeling with Repast Simphony12 Coveted RFID Award2 Making it Real: Mock Media in Exercises3 Wind Turbine Farm1 Argonne's ABMS tutorials remain popular resources11 Extreme-scale Scientific Data Stores10
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The Decision and Information Sciences Division hosts numerous training courses, conferences, and many other seminars throughout the year.


Next expected in March of 2014

Training Course: Application of the ASME Code to Radioactive Material Transportation Packaging

The goal of the course is to provide guidance for the application of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel (B&PV) Code to packaging for the transportation of high-level radioactive materials or fissile materials. The course objective is to facilitate the design, fabrication, examination, and testing of a packaging that meets all the applicable ASME Code requirements and all the governing federal requirements and regulations. Course information.


May 20-24, 2013

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation: Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques

For the past 10 years, Argonne, in conjunction with other institutions, has conducted an annual one-week course that includes an intensive business applications-oriented introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) based on Michael North and Charles Macal's book Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (Oxford 2007). The first half of the course focuses on ABMS concepts from the perspective of company managers and analysts. The second half of the course focuses on ABMS implementation from the perspective of company software developers and includes extensive hands-on exercises. Course description.


June 3-6, 2013

Advanced Repast Training Course

The Advanced Repast Training Course provides experienced developers with an in-depth, four day opportunity to expand their agent-based model implementation skills. The first three days of the course focus on advanced topics for Java-based Repast Simphony. The fourth day introduces C++-based Repast for High Performance Computing (Repast HPC). All four days will include extensive hands-on exercises demonstrating the course material. Course information.


June 25-27, 2013

Training Course: Quality Assurance for Radioactive Material Packaging

The purpose of the course is to provide QA training and practical experience for DOE personnel and contractors who are required to develop and implement a QA plan or prepare the QA chapter of a Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP) for the control of design, fabrication, assembly, testing, maintenance, repair, modification, and use of the packaging. The course begins with instructions concerning basic QA principles and concepts, and quickly advances to packaging-specific information. Course information.

Develop innovative decision support tools, including simulation models, databases, and analytical methodologies that can be used to provide quantitative information to decision makers;

Apply these tools to the analysis and solution of problems of national, local, and international significance; and

Transfer these tools to the community of researchers and end users for their own implementation.


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