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, School of Law
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 Institute of Standards and Technology
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, University of California, San Diego

            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.