no code implementations • 3 Jul 2023 • Arnau Quera-Bofarull, Joel Dyer, Anisoara Calinescu, Michael Wooldridge
Agent-based models (ABMs) are a promising approach to modelling and reasoning about complex systems, yet their application in practice is impeded by their complexity, discrete nature, and the difficulty of performing parameter inference and optimisation tasks.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Arnau Quera-Bofarull, Ayush Chopra, Anisoara Calinescu, Michael Wooldridge, Joel Dyer
Agent-based modelling (ABMing) is a powerful and intuitive approach to modelling complex systems; however, the intractability of ABMs' likelihood functions and the non-differentiability of the mathematical operations comprising these models present a challenge to their use in the real world.
1 code implementation • 20 Jul 2022 • Ayush Chopra, Alexander Rodríguez, Jayakumar Subramanian, Arnau Quera-Bofarull, Balaji Krishnamurthy, B. Aditya Prakash, Ramesh Raskar
Mechanistic simulators are an indispensable tool for epidemiology to explore the behavior of complex, dynamic infections under varying conditions and navigate uncertain environments.
1 code implementation • 14 Jan 2020 • Arnau Quera-Bofarull, Chris Done, Cedric Lacey, Jonathan C. McDowell, Guido Risaliti, Martin Elvis
UV line driven winds may be an important part of the AGN feedback process, but understanding their impact is hindered by the complex nature of the radiation hydrodynamics.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
2 code implementations • 3 Dec 2018 • Joseph Bullock, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Arnau Quera-Bofarull
X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions.