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Urban Informatics for Sustainability and Resilience (UrbInSuRe) Center
Barbara MinskerDepartment of Civil & Environmental EngineeringNational Center for Supercomputing Applications
April 2014
UrbInSuRe MissionEnvision a future city that is smarter and more
livable.Tap into the Big Data stream to improve
environmental, social, engineered, and economic sustainability and resilience in a rapidly changing world.
Source: VentureBeat.com
Sources include: Heidelberg Collaboratory, Minsker, GMES
Integrated, Information-Based Decision Making
Human, Physical,
Virtual Sensors
Bots
, Act
ors
Visualization Dashboard
Information-Based
Decisions
Calibration
Automated Provenance
…Seamless Computing…
Archives
Data Fusion
ModelingMultimodalData
Products
UrbInSuRe Objectives
1. Foster multi-disciplinary interaction and collaboration with partner cities on urban challenges
2. Provide shared resources (funds, space, staff, and cyberinfrastructure) to support collaborative urban research, education, and public engagement.
3. Support education and training for multi-disciplinary research teams and their city partners to contribute to these activities.
4. Raise the national and international profile of Illinois’ data-driven urban research, education, and engagement.
Imaginations unbound
Informatics & Synthesis Pipeline
Synthesis Workshops
Synthesis Working Groups
• Led by faculty & staff fellows.
• Student fellows assigned to each group
Synthesis Proposals &
Projects
New Knowledge &
Solutions
New Technologie
s
Publications
Open Source Cyberinfrastructu
re• Flexible,
modular architecture.
• Community services (workflows, tools, models, data)
• Committers and contributors
Domain & IT
Communities
Training Workshops
Synthesis Working Group Open Community Engagement Process
From the Water Science Software Institute S2I2 conceptualization team, 2011.
Proposed Working Group 1. Data-Driven Urban Informatics & TechnologiesResearch Questions
• What methods & computational solutions best address Big Data variety, volume, and velocity challenges?
• How can technology be used to better define, measure, and advance urban sustainability and resilience?
• What computational models are most accurate in predicting behavior of urban “systems of systems”?
Proposed Working Group 2. Risk and Resilience of Coastal CitiesResearch Questions
• How can coastal risk mitigation measures be designed to optimize economic, ecological, and societal outcomes?
• How can we develop resilient strategies that evolve and adapt with changing risks?
• How can coastal risks be assessed and rapidly communicated?
Super Storm Sandy- 2013 NYC
Proposed Working Group 3. Rural and Urban InterfacesResearch Questions
• How can the costs of goods and services provided in urban centers reflect the full environmental and social costs of production and delivery?
• What are the trade-offs between urban and rural pollutant sources, and how would they be affected by a life cycle costing approach?
Food Water
Energy
Proposed Working Group 4. Healthy Urban Living: Improving Human and Ecosystem WellbeingResearch Questions
• What data, models, technologies, designs, strategies, or policies would improve complex human and ecosystem health problems?
• What would a healthy, sustainable, and resilient city look like, and how can we measure progress towards such a goal?
Technology & City Platform
Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Big Data Analytics & MOdeling
Status and Next StepsFirst internal funding commitments promised
(College of Engineering, Prairie Research Institute)Discussions ongoing to secure additional internal
funding (Fine & Applied Arts, Library & Information Sciences, Agriculture, Law, Liberal Arts & Sciences, NCSA, Graduate College, Campus, other institutes)
Soft launch Fall 2014Create Web site & brochuresFirst 2 working groups launched with student supportWorkshops & meetings with city partnersProposal writing
Acknowledgments: Initial Working Group Members1. Data-Driven Urban Informatics and
Technologies (Co-Chairs: Jong Lee, NCSA, and Jana Diesner, GSLIS; Initial participants: Jon Gant, GSLIS; Danny Powell, NCSA; Nora El-Gohary CEE and Joshua Peschel, CEE; Mei-Po Kwan and Shaowen Wang, Geography; Scott Poole, Communications)
2. Risk and Resilience of Coastal Cities (Co-Chairs: Gary Miller, PRI, and Paolo Gardoni, CEE; Initial Participants: Barbara Minsker, CEE; Jesse Ribot and Ryan Sriver, Geography; Brian Anderson, INHS; Arden Rowell, Law; and Colleen Murphy, Philosophy)
Acknowledgments: Initial Working Group Members3. Rural and Urban Interfaces (Co-Chairs: Luis Rodriguez,
ABE, and Anna-Maria Marshall; Initial Participants: Craig Gunderson, ACE; Daniel Work and Bill Buttlar, CEE; Sam Wortman, Crop Sciences; Jong Lee, NCSA; Shaowen Wang, Geography; Brian Anderson, INHS; Jim Miller, NRES; Gary Miller, PRI; Bev Wilson and Bumsoo Lee, URP)
4. Healthy Urban Living: Improving Human and Ecosystem Wellbeing in the Urban Environment (Co-Chairs: Mei-Po Kwan, Geography, and Barbara Minsker, CEE; Initial participants: Craig Gunderson, ACE; Nora El-Gohary, CEE; William Sullivan, LA; Scott Poole, Communications; Luis Rodriguez, ABE; Kate Williams, GSLIS; Jim Miller, NRES; Bev Wilson and Bumsoo Lee, URP; Julie Cidell, Geography; Marilyn O’Hara, VetMed)