DAFNI Conference 2024

Mike's Notes

The DAFNI 2024 conference was held in September. 

"DAFNI is a computing platform which aims to support advanced research into national infrastructure, including transport, water, and energy and city scale modelling. It represents an £8 million investment from the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) to provide world leading infrastructure systems research capabilities and enhance the quality of outputs.  

DAFNI aims to improve the efficiency, reliability and sustainability of infrastructure through better sharing and use of data, exploitation of simulation and optimization techniques, and engagement with stakeholders through visualisation. DAFNI allows researchers to scale and integrate their computational models to explore the social and environmental impacts of changes in infrastructure with much greater coverage and detail, and to deposit, share and use data collected in research projects and generated in models. ..." - DAFNI

The DAFNI conference presentations are available on the DAFNI website and are listed below. I am particularly interested in how the UK Digital Twin for infrastructure is working out.

 I first came across the UK National Digital Twin Project some years ago while looking for examples of temporal modelling in large databases to use in Pipi. I came across the late Dr Matthew West, the technical lead on the UK project. He led the development of the Shell Refinery Ontology, etc.

Matthew also developed 4Dism, a way to model things in time and how they change. One of the Pipi Engines uses this now.

Matthew helped me immensely through the Ontolog Forum to discuss issues with using 4Dism.

That led me to Chris Partridge, who is behind BORO, which the Pipi BORO Engine uses, running it forward and in reverse.

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