FLORIDA PUBLICHURRICANE LOSS MODEL V6.1

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Dr. Shu-Ching ChenSchool of Computing and Information SciencesFlorida International University

C-3 Model Architecture and Component Design(3) diagrams illustrating model-related flow of information and its processing by modeling organization personnel or team.

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CS team defined a set of style guidelines for all project members to follow. Identify the data and participating actors (roles). Number the information flow sequence. Include brief description of the information flow being

illustrated. Add a legend if abbreviations/acronyms are used.

UML was chosen as the modeling language. Diagrams were created using a UML stencil for

Microsoft Visio, which provides standard UML 2.x symbols. CS team provided instructions on how to download and use the

template as well as provided references to online resources.

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C-3 Model Architecture and Component Design(3) diagrams illustrating model-related flow of information and its processing by modeling organization personnel or team. (continued)

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C-3 Model Architecture and Component Design(3) diagrams illustrating model-related flow of information and its processing by modeling organization personnel or team. (continued)

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C-3 Model Architecture and Component Design(3) diagrams illustrating model-related flow of information and its processing by modeling organization personnel or team. (continued)

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C-5 VerificationVerification approaches used for externally acquired data, software, and models.

Verification approaches are used for externally acquired data that is used as input or preparation for input into model. No external software or models are used as integral parts of the model.

Meteorology team: Data is imported into GIS software for thorough inspection. Data is cross checked with other data sources when available. For data that is updated, numerical differences between either the

raw data or a derived quantity of the updated and original data are computed.

For textual data, such as HURDAT(2), standard Unix tools are used to identify changes in the data. Data is then cross checked against other sources to determine if the changes are reasonable.

For data which are GIS layers, such as ZIP Code boundaries, updated and previous layers are overlaid to visually inspect the data.

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C-5 VerificationVerification approaches used for externally acquired data, software, and models. (continued)

Engineering team Data obtained from county property tax appraisers

databases was verified to identify flawed information: visual and graphical scanning for nonsensical data elimination of duplicates review of the consistency of the data based on engineering

judgment and comparison with portfolio data.

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C-5 VerificationFully time-stamped, documented cross-checking procedures ..., including tester identification ...

Compute loss costs for 2013 Form V-3. Matrix selection of PR code was modified to

accommodate special nomenclature of vulnerability matrices for Form V-3.

Program for verifying matrix assignment was coded. MS Excel spreadsheet to cross-check MHR model

calculation. …

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