Devil's Gate Multi-Use Project and Urban Water Resource
Not since Congress passed the 1902 Reclamation Act has there been an opportunity for a water resources project to make such an instrumental impact on the environment. Historically, damming...
Wetland Valuation Based Upon Multi-Purpose Performance Evaluation
Wetland protection and restoration have become a top priority in water management. A wide variety of benefits are ascribed to wetland protection, e.g., flood control, water quality improvement,...
Creativity and Water Resources: Theory and Stimulation
An attempt was made to assess the evolution of the water resources field. First, the most significant scientific advancements in the field since 2000 BC until early 1900 AD were listed...
Presentation of Case Study and Identification of Special Interest Groups
A typical example facing the National Park Service is presented that demonstrates the diversity in objectives associated with water resources decision making in an environmentally conscious...
Live Demonstration with Attendees Participation
An application of multi criterion decision making is demonstrated in an interactive environment with Conference participants attending this session. A common problem facing water resources...
COFDEX: Composite Floor Design Expert
A knowledge-based system, called COFDEX, is presented for integrated minimum cost or minimum weight design of composite floors in multistory buildings. Developed in the expert system programming...
Expert System for Driven Pile Selection
Selection of driven piles for deep foundations is a complex process. Many subjective factors enter into the decision of which pile to select, making experience an important factor in proper...
Knowledge-Assisted Interactive Probabilistic Site Characterization
This paper describes a prototype knowledge-based expert system for probabilistic geological anomaly characterization and geotechnical system reliability evaluation. The system assists...
An Expert System for Preliminary Ground Improvement Selection
Ground Improvement is an area which has rapidly advanced in the past two decades. Most of the work has resulted from experience in field work. Thus experience has played a vital role in...
KBES Applications to the Selection and Design of Retaining Structures
Knowledge-based expert systems (KBES) are computer programs, based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, designed to reach the level of performance of a human expert in some specialized...
SOLES: A Knowledge-Based Soil Liquefaction Potential Evaluation System
A prototype computer program, SOLES has been developed to evaluate the liquefaction potential of soil subjected to earthquake excitations. The program applies both rule-and algorithm-based...
An Expert System for Civil Engineering Applications
Civil engineering is a field where experimental knowledge has no substitute. Making experts' knowledge explicit and documenting and transferring it can have a great impact...
Evaluation of Geotechnical Design Parameters by Expert System Techniques
This study refers to application of an artificial intelligence technique to evaluate geotechnical design parameters in the soil design definition. This complex evaluation is incorporeted...
Aerial Photographic Analysis of Boat Traffic Distributions in Cumberland Sound, Georgia
Some Aspects on Human Recreational Behavior of Beach Along Shonan Coast
Destruction and Restoration of New Nagasaki Fishing Port Breakwaters
A Study of Fishing Port Structures with Improved Environmental Protection Technology
Planning of an Offshore Fishing Port in Shallow Sandy Beach
A Redevelopment of Large-Scale Fishing Port Located in the Vicinity of City (Misaki Fishing Port Redevelopment)
Vertical Convection Introduced by a V-Shaped Plate Structure
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