EAGER: SSDIM: Simulated and Synthetic Data for Interdependent Communications and Energy Critical Infrastructures

这一探索性研究早期概念补助金项目将开发新的数学基础和基于计算机的学习理论，以生成广泛的模拟和完全合成的数据集，这些数据集对城市环境中相互依存的通信和能源基础设施进行建模。这些增强的数据集和相关的数据构建工具将提供与相互依赖的关键基础设施(ICIS)相关的大规模测试数据。新的模拟和合成数据生成工具将提高ICIS的弹性和灵活性，改善其在极端天气条件和其他威胁下的安全性。该项目将有来自工程学、计算机科学和心理学的不同背景的学生参加，他们将接受与模拟和合成数据建模挑战有关的相关研究方法的培训。该教育计划包括一门新的以数据为中心的课程，名为创建模拟和合成数据的方法，以及让研究生和本科生大规模参与大数据和智能社区研究。确保广泛传播的办法是建立一个开放获取的数据集储存库，该储存库由基金资助的研究结果以及用于生成和分析此类数据的任何程序代码或相关工具组成。该开放访问试验台既能支持东道国机构的研究需求，又能满足其他用户对非专有多域开放数据集的需求，为生成通信和能源等ICIS上的模拟和合成数据奠定了科学基础。其目标是通过利用可用的真实世界数据集开发能够准确重建、模拟和评估ICI功能的健壮理论框架的模型。这项研究将导致几个创新：1)先进的转移学习技术，它使用可用的真实世界信息生成关于ICIS的模拟数据，导致对相互依赖如何随着时间的推移而形成或消失的更好的表征；2)基于分层贝叶斯方法的合成数据创建技术，使ICIS能够在日常操作、自然灾害或恶意攻击发生故障时以最佳方式管理其共享资源；3)一种基于长期/短期记忆的深度学习方法，用于预测关于人在环中对人类行为的认知建模的模拟数据以及他们在响应涉及城市ICIS的意外事件和事件时的决策的影响；以及4)一种质量反馈环路验证和数据管理方法，通过将其与现实网络上的可用真实世界数据进行比较来微调模拟和合成数据，该网络具有在城市环境中集成ICIS的大规模模拟器。

This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will develop new mathematical foundations and computer-based learning theories for generating a wide range of simulated and fully-synthetic datasets that model interdependent communications and energy infrastructures in urban settings. These enhanced datasets and associated data building tools will provide a large-scale test data related to interdependent critical infrastructures (ICIs). New simulated and synthetic data generation tools will enable increasing the resiliency and flexibility of ICIs, improving their security during extreme weather conditions and other threats. This project will involve students from diverse backgrounds in engineering, computer science and psychology, who will be trained on pertinent research approaches related to the challenges of simulated and synthetic data modeling. The education plan includes a new data-centric course called Methods for Creating Simulated and Synthetic Data, as well as a large-scale involvement of graduate and undergraduate students in big data and smart community research. Broad dissemination is ensured by enabling an open-access repository of datasets created from the results of the funded research, as well as any program codes or related tools used to generate and analyze such data. The open-access testbed is capable of supporting both the research needs of the host institution as well as the requirement of non-proprietary multi-domain open datasets by other users.This project will develop a scientific basis for the generation of simulated and synthetic data on ICIs, such as communication and energy. The objective is to develop models that can accurately reconstruct, simulate, and evaluate a robust theoretical framework of ICI function by leveraging available real-world datasets. This research will lead to several innovations: 1) An advanced Transfer Learning technique that generates simulated data on ICIs using available real-world information, leading to improved characterization of how interdependencies can form or disappear over time; 2) a Hierarchical Bayesian method-based technique for the creation of synthetic data that enables ICIs to optimally manage their shared resources in response to failures from day-to-day operations, natural disasters, or malicious attacks; 3) a Long-/Short-term Memory-based deep learning method for predicting simulated data on human-in-the-loop cognitive modeling of human behavior and the effects of their decision-making in response to unexpected incidents and events involving urban ICIs; and 4) a quality-feedback loop verification and data management approach to fine-tune the simulated and synthetic data by comparing it against available real-world data over a realistic network with a large-scale simulator that integrates ICIs over an urban setting.