PUBLICATIONS

S. L. Kerrigan and K. H. Law. "A Regulation-Centric, Logic-Based Compliance Assistance Framework," (to appear) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 19(1)1:15, 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis Tool for Comparing Drafted Regulations and the Associated Public Comments," (accepted) Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 2005.

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "A Prototype Study on Electronic-Rulemaking," abstract accepted for Encyclopedia of Digital Government, 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Legal Information Retrieval and Application on E-Rulemaking," submitted to the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2005), Bologna, Italy, Jun 6-10, 2005.

G. T. Lau. A Comparative Analysis Framework for Semi-Structured Documents, with Applications to Government Regulations, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 2004.

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Comparing Accessibility Regulations and Related Information from Multiple Sources," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, June 2-4, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. "A Software Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. "An E-Government Information Architecture for Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Delft, The Netherlands, October 25-27, 2004.

S. Kerrigan. "A Software Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August, 2003.

S. Kerrigan, and K. H. Law. "Logic-Based Regulation Compliance-Assistance," Submitted to the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2003), pp.126-135, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2003.

W. B. Labiosa, R. D. Shachter, J. O. Leckie, and J. Rytuba. "A Bayesian Network-Based Decision Analysis Approach to Watershed Management Decisions," CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Paper Track 33, May 16-19, 2004.

J. Wang, J. O. Leckie, K. H. Law, G. Wiederhold. "Distributed Information Organization and Management Framework for Regulation Compliance," Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 37), MiniTracks E-Government Cluster, January 5-8, 2004.

S. Kerrigan, C. Heenan, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2003), pp.183-188, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.

W. B. Labiosa, J. O. Leckie, T. Mumley, J. Rytuba, and R. Bernknopf. "A Decision Analysis Approach to TMDL Implementation: Mercury TMDLs in the San Francisco Bay Area," Proceedings of the National TMDL Science and Policy Specialty Conference, Water Environment Federation, Chicago, IL, November 16-18, 2003.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulations," Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS'03), pp. 37-42, Seattle, WA, Dec 13-14, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Similarity Analysis on Government Regulations,"  Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 111-117, Washington, DC, Aug 24-27, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Framework for Regulation Comparison with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2003), pp. 251-254, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and B. Kumar. "A Regulatory Information Infrastructure with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of Include 2003: Inclusive Design for Society and Business, pp. 65-71, London, Mar 25-28, 2003.

C. Han, J. C. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Compliance Analysis for Disabled Access," Advances in Digital Government Technology, Human Factors, and Policy. William J. McIver, Jr. and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (eds), pp. 149-163, Kluwer, Boston, MA, 2002.

C. Heenan. Manual and Technology-Based Approaches to Using Classification for the Facilitation of Access to Unstructured Text (unpublished manuscript), Engineering Informatics Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, January, 2002.

C. Heenan. A Review of Academic Research on Information Retrieval (unpublished manuscript), Engineering Informatics Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, August, 2002.

S. Kerrigan, C. Heenan, and K. H. Law. "Regnet: An Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2002), pp. 377-382, Los Angeles, CA, May 20-22, 2002.

G. T. Lau. REGBASE: An Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Comparative Analysis, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September, 2002.

S. Kerrigan, G. T. Lau, L. Zhou, G. Wiederhold, and K. H. Law. "Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2001), pp. 167-170, Los Angeles, CA, May 21-23, 2001.

C. Han. Computer Models and Methods for a Disabled Access Analysis Design Environment, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2000.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "A Distributed Object Component-based Approach to Large-scale Engineering Systems and an Example Component Using Motion Planning Techniques for Disabled Access Usability Analysis," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (VIII-ICCCBE), Palo Alto, CA, August 14-16, 2000.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Making Automated Building Code Checking a Reality," Facility Management Journal, pp. 22-28, September/October, 1997.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Client/Server Framework for On-Line Building Code Checking," Journal on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE 12(4):181-194, 1998.