The Optimal Uncertainty Algorithm in the Mystic Framework

نویسندگان

  • Mike McKerns
  • Houman Owhadi
  • Clint Scovel
  • Timothy John Sullivan
  • Michael Ortiz
چکیده

We have recently proposed a rigorous framework for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in which UQ objectives and assumption/information set are brought into the forefront, providing a framework for the communication and comparison of UQ results. In particular, this framework does not implicitly impose inappropriate assumptions nor does it repudiate relevant information. This framework, which we call Optimal Uncertainty Quantification (OUQ), is based on the observation that given a set of assumptions and information, there exist bounds on uncertainties obtained as values of optimization problems and that these bounds are optimal. It provides a uniform environment for the optimal solution of the problems of validation, certification, experimental design, reduced order modeling, prediction, extrapolation, all under aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. OUQ optimization problems are extremely large, and even though under general conditions they have finite-dimensional reductions, they must often be solved numerically. This general algorithmic framework for OUQ has been implemented in the mystic optimization framework. We describe this implementation, and demonstrate its use in the context of the Caltech surrogate model for hypervelocity impact. Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Email: [email protected] Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Email: [email protected] Modeling, Algorithms, & Informatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. Email: [email protected] Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Email: [email protected] Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Email: [email protected]

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1202.1055  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011