Anouk Barberousse: Community Modeling Systems as Challenge to Reliability

Climate computer simulations involve large teams of researchers who have to collaborate on designing and using computer programmes. Several disciplines are concerned: statistical physics, hydrodynamics, geologists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, etc. In order to better understand how reliable knowledge is produced via climate simulations, I shall focus on several examples of community modelling involving different types of collaboration, from more centralized to more open ones, and I shall examine in each case how reliability is achieved. At first view, it might seem that reliability is directly related with centralization; however, as climate modeling is subject to the time constraint, which demands the results to come at a quick pace, centralized modes of collaboration may not be the most efficient ones. Anouk Barberousse, History and Philsophy of Science, Université Lille 1, France Presented at the Algorithms and Complexity in Mathematics, Epistemology and Science conference. ACMES is a multidisciplinary conference that focuses on a combination of the science of reliability and uncertainty quantification with conceptual and foundational issues concerning reliability in the application of scientific theories to real phenomena. The conference integrates longer talks from six leading computational scientists and philosophers of science with shorter computational research contributions from others, including graduate students, in computational science and epistemology of science. 6-8 May 2015 Visit the Rotman website for more information on applications, events, project descriptions and openings. http://www.rotman.uwo.ca Follow The Rotman Institute on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rotmanphilo Like The Rotman Institute on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RotmanInstitute Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rotmanphilosophy