2004 SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

IT Registration: ASCE Members: $150 /Non-Members: $195. Includes Symposium, Expo, Breakfast, Refreshment Breaks, Expo Hall Lunch & Proceedings.

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Join us to focus on Computational Intelligence, including practical and theoretical intelligent-agent applications Civil Engineering. Topics include but are not limited to:
  • Artificial Life
  • Artificial Immune Systems
  • Data Mining Applications
  • Hybrid Systems,Adaptation, and Learning Systems
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Probability Graphical Models
  • Swarm Intelligence
An attempt will be made to present both academic and industrial applications, with a special track for US, European, and Asia (Pacific Rim) works in these areas. The symposium will also address how these techniques can be integrated into the Civil Engineering curriculum.

8:00 AM - 10:15 AM
COMMENCEMENT

8:00 AM
REGISTRATION
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

BREAKFAST
8:40 AM

WELCOME TO THE SYMPOSIUM
MODERATOR:
Nii Attoh-Okine, Ph.D., M.ASCE, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
John Voeller, Chief Knowledge Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Black & Veatch

WHAT ARE THE NEXT THREE REVOLUTIONS IN TECHNOLOGY WE ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO - BUT AREN'T

As a member of both the BVSG Executive and Operations Committees, John Voeller plays an active role in understanding the important trends that impact BVSG and its clients. With 30 years' experience in information technology and engineering and construction services, he has a clear vision for the business and operations and helps align the organization with short- and long-term automation strategies. John is principal architect of POWRTRAK, the automated engineering system of Black & Veatch. POWRTRAK fueled the company's rise from thirteenth to first in the US and the world in power plant design and delivery. The system involves 14 modules and 14 million lines of code, is used on 500 projects, and manages more than 1.5 million objects on a single project. He is the current Technical Lead for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological Technology Alliance, a group of 13 companies including 3M, Honeywell, Motorola, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, and General Dynamics, directed at eliminating terrorist threats via advanced technology. He has acted as technology consultant to General Electric, Arizona Public Service, Southern Company, Niagara Mohawk, Consumers Power, Taiwan Power, and Fluor, and guided technology decisions in Shell, British Petroleum, General Motors, and many others. Prior to his information technology career, John held engineering positions with Black & Veatch, Control Data Corporate, Westinghouse Turbine, and Westinghouse Nuclear. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT NSF
Jesus de La Garza, The National Science Foundation; Vecellio Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

10:15 AM - 10:45 PM
REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:45 AM - 12:25 PM
SESSION I: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS I
MODERATOR:
Khalil Khozeimeh, SK&A Inc.

COMPUTING BASED INFRASTRUCTURE LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS TOOLS
Gerardo Flintsch, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

SOFT COMPUTING IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
Arde Faghri, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
Halil Ceylan, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

SOME DATA MINING APPLICATIONS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ago Quaye & Fidelis Ikem, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

EXPOSITION HALL LUNCH See page 24.

2:00 PM - 3:20 PM SESSION II: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS II
MODERATOR:
Shinya Kikuchi, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING IN DOWELLED-CONCRETE PAVEMENT FAULTING PERFORMANCE MODELING
Deidre Paris, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA; Nii Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

PREDICTING EXPERIENCED TRAVEL TIME IN THE PRESENCE OF INCIDENTS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Charles D. Mark & Adel Sadek, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS EMPLOYING SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM
Raja Shekharan, Virginia DOT, Richmond, VA

AN EXPERIMENTAL CONFIGURATION OF PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHM TO TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS
Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
REFRESHMENT BREAK

3:40 PM - 5:20 PM
SESSION III: EMERGING TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS

MODERATOR:
Kim Roddis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF STABILIZED AGGREGATE BASES CYCLIC LOADING USING ABAQUS
Naji Khouri & M. Zaman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

DYNAMIC ROAD PRICING: A MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS APPROACH
Dusan Teodorovic, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPLICATION IN CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE
Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

SIMULATING PEDESTRIAN INTERACTIONS USING CELLULAR AUTOMATA
Mike Markovski, Shinya Kikuchi, University of Delaware, Newark, DE