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Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, held in Nashville, Tennessee, November 15-16, 2003. Sponsored by the Technical Council on Computing Practices of ASCE; European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering .

This collection contains 57 papers detailing past, present and future information technology advancements in civil engineering.

Topics include:

• previous successes and failures of information technology in civil engineering;  
• current trends and professional needs for information technology in civil engineering;  
• emerging information technologies relevant to civil engineering needs;  
• a European perspective on the future of information technology in civil engineering;
• a North American perspective on the future of information technology in civil engineering;
• barriers and potential solutions to the development and implementation of information technology in civil engineering;
• design and decision-support tools;
• educational tools;
• information modeling and management;
• project and business management;
• simulation modeling; and
• visualization tools.