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The recent Uncertainty in Computation Visioning Workshop was aimed at facilitating discussion among experts in diverse scientific fields about uncertainty.
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The Computing Community Consortium's recent Uncertainty in Computation Visioning Workshop convened more than 40 scientists from different disciplines, including simulation and data science, engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, visualization, decision science, and psychology.
The workshop aimed to facilitate a discussion between experts with diverse scientific backgrounds about the topic of uncertainty and its communication. Attendees worked to articulate grand research challenges in understanding and communicating uncertainty inherent in computational processes. The workshop included individual talks, panel discussions, and smaller interactive discussion sessions.
During the workshop, attendees were able to communicate new challenges that necessitate the consideration of the impact of uncertainty in a variety of disciplines from new perspectives. For example, in simulation science, recent advances have incorporated successful techniques for quantifying uncertainty associated with components of a complex system.
Still, there remains a need to better comprehend the propagation of uncertainty due to the interplay between such elements that calls for development of uncertainty measurement methods at the system level. The flood of daily produced data also necessitates the development of new computation techniques that enable deployment of existing methods at the extreme scale.
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