Plan for proposal presentation

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(Once again, I am finding myself in need of somewhere to type out plans and thoughts. So, the research journal lives on...)

I am trying to work out a plan for my proposal presentation - Here is the tentative outline:

• Problem Description and Motivation
  • The need for simulation adaptation
    • Simulation reuse under changing requirements
    • Overcoming semantic incompatibility in component-based simulation
    • Adapting in response to observed data (data-driven simulation)
  • Review related work:
    • Design for Change
    • Automatic Programming
    • Automatic Adaptation
    • Compositional Modeling
  • The need for a domain-specific approach - Manual is not fast enough, particularly for data-driven and real-time applications
• Background: Flexible points and coercion
  • The target domain: Coercible software. Its properties:
    • Involves a lot of model abstraction opportunities
    • Uses stochastics
    • Based around logical time and time management
  • Definition of flexible points
  • Coercion process
    • Expert insight
    • Optimization/automatic search
    • Manual modification
  • Need for coercibility - Encoding SME insight in advance
• Proposed research: Language constructs for coercible software. Steps:
  • Study and select assumptions about model abstractions
  • Finalize requirements for flexible point language constructs
  • Establish categories of flexible points (taxonomy)
  • Propose language constructs to cover the whole taxonomy
  • Evaluation through case studies, demonstration of connection with automatic tools
• Conclusion
  • Understanding of model abstraction opportunities and language constructs to represent them
  • Impact on simulation users: Accelerating coercion, making components flexible, etc.
  • Research Plan
    • Milestones
    • Criteria for Completion