Strategic Approach to Child Support Data Purification : System Conversion

Dealing with 46 County systems, which have differences in their system development, can be daunting. Since the current State System, Legacy IV-D System, has a common way of getting information from these 46 systems, it will be logical to use it as base for converting all Child Support data to the new system. The goal as examined in this paper is to have Child Support Legacy System with that of all 46 County systems' biometrics cleaned up in readiness for the new Centralize Child Support System

Uncertainty Quantification In Large Computational Engineering Models

While a wealth of experience in the development of uncertainty quantification methods and software tools exists at present, a cohesive software package utilizing massively parallel computing resources does not. The thrust of the work to be discussed herein is the development of such a toolkit, which has leveraged existing software frameworks (e.g., DAKOTA (Design Analysis Kit for OpTimizAtion)) where possible, and has undertaken additional development efforts when necessary. The contributions of this paper are two-fold. One, the design and structure of the toolkit from a software perspective will be discussed, detailing some of its distinguishing features. Second, the toolkit's capabilities will be demonstrated by applying a subset of its available uncertainty quantification techniques to an example problem involving multiple engineering disciplines, nonlinear solid mechanics and soil mechanics. This example problem will demonstrate the toolkit's suitability in quantifying uncertainty in engineering applications of interest modeled using very large computational system models