IoT and Big Data in Geotechnical Construction: Connecting Drill Rigs to the Cloud
It’s almost impossible these days to escape the fervor and buzz surrounding technologies and concepts such as Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI)....

Facing the Challenges in Educational, Technological and Social Change Leading to 2050

Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization, By Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane. New York City: Doubleday, 2012

Leveraging LinkedIn for Business

Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Alexander Missal. New York City: Viking Penguin, 2009.

Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering by David Douglas and Greg Papadopulous, with John Boutelle. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010.

Book Review: New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion by Rich Ling. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Advances in Watershed Management and Fluvial Hazard Mitigation Using Artificial Neural Networks and Remote Sensing
Watershed and channel management across spatial and temporal scales requires an informed, interdisciplinary approach by experts and stakeholders, who often have disparate goals and objectives....

Stochastic Conditional Simulation of Berea Sandstone Geophysical Properties with a Counterpropagation Neural Network
The ability of a counterpropagation neural network to produce stochastic conditional simulations is applied and evaluated on a real dataset. This network functions as a nonparametric clustering...

Humanities and Social Sciences

Infrastructure Planning Handbook
Planning, Engineering, and Economics
The book covers the concepts, methods, and management skills necessary to plan and maintain infrastructure. Topics include major infrastructure projects in context; master planning; infrastructure...

Estimating Streamflow throughout River Networks using Hierarchical Artificial Neural Networks for Determining Fluvial Impairment in Watersheds

Artificial Neural Networks in Water Supply Engineering
Prepared by the Water Supply Engineering Technical Committee of the Infrastructure Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. ...

A Participatory Approach to Development of a Decision Support Tool
Effective decision-making in water management must consider both the physical characteristics of the system and the social, political, and institutional aspects. These latter aspects cannot...

Leakage Control—Finding a New Resource from the Existing One
It is estimated that by the year 2005, one person in two will have an insufficient supply of one of the world's most precious elements: water. Worse still, it is predicted that this shortage...

Panel Discussion: Synthesis - What Does It All Mean?
This final panel and group discussion revisted topics from all of the week's sessions. It was acknowledged that the conference has addressed the threat of terrorism to diverse systems...

Solving Socioeconomic Problems Using Geotechnical Engineering Skills

Prediction of Pavement Performance—A Neural Network Approach

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Ungauged Catchments Flood Prediction
The prediction of floods with acceptable accuracy is the most important step in designing flood control structures and operating flood damage mitigation projects. It is more difficult...

Watershed Management Strategies for the Sustainable Environmental Rehabilitation of Stressed Areas in Northern Greece
The present paper has a two prong emphasis. Firstly, it demarcates the physical, structural and socio-economic environment in central Macedonia and the associated water management issues....

 

 

 

 

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