R&D for Computational Cognitive and Social Models : Foundations for Model Evaluation through Verification and Validation (Final LDRD Report).

摘要

Sandia National Laboratories is investing in projects that aim to develop computational modeling and simulation applications that explore human cognitive and social phenomena. While some of these modeling and simulation projects are explicitly research oriented, others are intended to support or provide insight for people involved in high consequence decision-making. This raises the issue of how to evaluate computational modeling and simulation applications in both research and applied settings where human behavior is the focus of the model: when is a simulation good enough for the goals its designers want to achieve. In this report, we discuss two years worth of review and assessment of the ASC programs approach to computational model verification and validation, uncertainty quantification, and decision making. We present a framework that extends the principles of the ASC approach into the area of computational social and cognitive modeling and simulation.