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. 2008 Mar 1;4(1):46-53.

An Interaction Based Composable Architecture for Building Scalable Models of Large Social, Biological, Information and Technical Systems

Karla Atkins  1 , Christopher L Barrett, Richard Beckman, Keith Bisset, Jiangzhou Chen, Stephen Eubank, Annette Feng, Xizhou Feng, Steven D Harris, Bryan Lewis, V S Anil Kumar, Madhav V Marathe, Achla Marathe, Henning Mortveit, Paula Stretz
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An Interaction Based Composable Architecture for Building Scalable Models of Large Social, Biological, Information and Technical Systems

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Figure 1
Schematic of societal infrastructure systems (adapted from [2]).
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Figure 2
Overall cyber-infrastructure architecture for simulation based decision support and consequence analysis of large societal infrastructures.
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Figure 3
Schematic architecture of SimDM: data management module based on the 5S specification.
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Figure 4
A sample graphic available to the analyst when using the cyber-infrastructure in the illustrative scenarios. Note the spatial detail that can be generated.
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