Journal of Big Data (May 2023)

Research in computing-intensive simulations for nature-oriented civil-engineering and related scientific fields, using machine learning and big data: an overview of open problems

  • Zoran Babović,
  • Branislav Bajat,
  • Vladan Đokić,
  • Filip Đorđević,
  • Dražen Drašković,
  • Nenad Filipović,
  • Borko Furht,
  • Nikola Gačić,
  • Igor Ikodinović,
  • Marija Ilić,
  • Ayhan Irfanoglu,
  • Branislav Jelenković,
  • Aleksandar Kartelj,
  • Gerhard Klimeck,
  • Nenad Korolija,
  • Miloš Kotlar,
  • Miloš Kovačević,
  • Vladan Kuzmanović,
  • Marko Marinković,
  • Slobodan Marković,
  • Avi Mendelson,
  • Veljko Milutinović,
  • Aleksandar Nešković,
  • Nataša Nešković,
  • Nenad Mitić,
  • Boško Nikolić,
  • Konstantin Novoselov,
  • Arun Prakash,
  • Ivan Ratković,
  • Zoran Stojadinović,
  • Andrey Ustyuzhanin,
  • Stan Zak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00731-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Abstract This article presents a taxonomy and represents a repository of open problems in computing for numerically and logically intensive problems in a number of disciplines that have to synergize for the best performance of simulation-based feasibility studies on nature-oriented engineering in general and civil engineering in particular. Topics include but are not limited to: Nature-based construction, genomics supporting nature-based construction, earthquake engineering, and other types of geophysical disaster prevention activities, as well as the studies of processes and materials of interest for the above. In all these fields, problems are discussed that generate huge amounts of Big Data and are characterized with mathematically highly complex Iterative Algorithms. In the domain of applications, it has been stressed that problems could be made less computationally demanding if the number of computing iterations is made smaller (with the help of Artificial Intelligence or Conditional Algorithms), or if each computing iteration is made shorter in time (with the help of Data Filtration and Data Quantization). In the domain of computing, it has been stressed that computing could be made more powerful if the implementation technology is changed (Si, GaAs, etc.…), or if the computing paradigm is changed (Control Flow, Data Flow, etc.…).

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