(Vision Paper) A Vision for Spatio-Causal Situation Awareness, Forecasting, and Planning


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Azad F. T., Candan K. S., Kapkiç A., Li M., Liu H., Mandal P., ...Daha Fazla

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, cilt.10, sa.2, 2024 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1145/3672556
  • Dergi Adı: ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: causal discovery, Spatial algorithms, spatial big data
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Successfully tackling many urgent challenges in socio-economically critical domains, such as public health and sustainability, requires a deeper understanding of causal relationships and interactions among a diverse spectrum of spatio-Temporally distributed entities. In these applications, the ability to leverage spatio-Temporal data to obtain causally based situational awareness and to develop informed forecasts to provide resilience at different scales is critical. While the promise of a causally grounded approach to these challenges is apparent, the core data technologies needed to achieve these are in the early stages and lack a framework to help realize their potential. In this article, we argue that there is an urgent need for a novel paradigm of spatio-causal research built on computational advances in spatio-Temporal data and model integration, causal learning and discovery, large scale data-and model-driven simulations, emulations, and forecasting, as well as spatio-Temporal data-driven and model-centric operational recommendations, and effective causally driven visualization and explanation. We thus provide a vision, and a road map, for spatio-causal situation awareness, forecasting, and planning.