REGNET:
A Distributed Information Management Framework for Environmental Laws and Regulations;
Sponsor:
Information Technology Research Program, National Science Foundation
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environemental
Engineering
Professor Gio Wiederhold, Department of Computer Science
Professor Jim Leckie, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Barton Thompson,
The objective of this research is develop a software framework for the
management of government regulations (specifically for environmental laws) and
related information (such as guidance documents, legal cases) and for
compliance assistance.
REGBASE: A
Distributed Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance
Checking;
(Regulation Management, Wheelchair Simulation)
Sponsor: Digital
Government Program, National Science Foundation
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Professor Gio Wiederhold, Department of Computer Science
The objective of this research is to investigate a performance-based
approach for compliance assistance with respect to accessibility guidelines
(ADAAG). The project also involves
comparisons of multiple accessibility codes and e-rulemaking problem.
Computational Modeling of Nonadaptive
Crowd Behaviors for Egress Analysis
Sponsor: Center
for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environemental
Engineering
Professor J.-C. Latombe, Department of Computer Science
Dr. Ken Dauber, Stanford’s Center for Innovations in Learning
This project investigates human and social behaviors during
emergency evacuation. A multi-agent
based computational framework is being designed to simulate crowd
dynamics.
Data
and Metadata Efforts for the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations
(NEES)
Sponsor: National Science
Foundation and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environemental
Engineering
Dr. Jun Peng,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
This project develops a reference data model and tools (for
facilitate report generation) for earthquake engineering experimentations and
simulations..
Process
Specification and Simulation
Sponsor: National
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
This project investigates the use of PSL (Process
Specification Language) as an exchange standard for process specification and
SIMQL (Simulation Query Language) for the simulation of workflow processes.
A Wireless Modular Health Monitoring
System for Civil Infrastructure
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Professor Anne S. Kiremidjian,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Tom W. Kenny,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
This project, in collaboration with researchers mechanical
and electrical engineering, is to develop a wireless micro-machined electrical
mechanical device for vibration testing and structural health monitoring
applications.
Internet-Enabled Simulation of Earthquake
Liquefaction Response on Parallel Computers
Sponsor: National
Science Foundation
Investigators:
Professor Ahmed Elgamal,
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
This project aims to
develop a parallel computational code (ParCYCLIC) for simulation of
liquefaction due to earthquake excitation.
Internet-based user interface is also being developed.
Internet-Enabled Framework for
Collaborative Development of Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis Program
Sponsor: Pacific
Earthquake Engineering Center
Investigator:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering
This project, in collaboration with researchers at
University of California, Berkeley, is to develop an internet-based
collaborative framework for the development of structural analysis
program. The framework is designed to
support collaborative software development by researchers at PEER, a consortium
of over 10 universities in the west coast.
Building Design Services in a
Distributed Object Environment
Sponsor: ITSS’s
Internet2 Program, Stanford University
Investigators:
Professor Kincho H. Law, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Dr. Charles S. Han, Autodesk, Inc. (formerly, Post-dorctoral Fellow)
The purpose of this project is to investigate the utilization of
Internet2 environment for distributive computing.