Quality assurance of computer simulations of certain systems
in the environmental and medical sciences
Project supported by CRUP and BRITISH
COUNCIL (Portugal)
Acções Integradas Luso-Britânicas, projecto B-15/08
Starting date: April 2008; Duration: 1 year
Participating Institutions:
1. Instituto
Superior Técnico /Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Research
Team:
From Instituto Superior Técnico:
Pedro Lima (Coordinator), PhD
José Manuel
Ferreira, PhD
Teresa Diogo, PhD
Filomena Teodoro (PhD Student)
Magda Rebelo (PhD Student)
From the University of Chester:
Neville Ford,
Patricia Lumb,
Enu-Ebari Nwamue (PhD student)
Md Abdul Malique (PhD student)
Rita Potter (PhD student)
Garfield Southall (PhD student)
Project
Summary
We propose to develop computer-based ('in-silico')
simulation models for certain problems in the environmental sciences and immunology
to enable predictions to be made without the necessity to conduct traditional
experiments. The particular models contain memory effects and time delays of
the sort frequently encountered in these applications areas. The project is
concerned with the need to have accurate models and to be able to simulate them
reliably. Thus we shall be concerned with the choice of algorithms to assure
the quality of solutions of the mathematical formulations of the problems. We
shall also consider alternative (artificial intelligence-based) approaches to
providing simulations.