Civil engineering grand challenges: Opportunities for data sensing, information analysis, and knowledge discovery

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Becerik Gerber, Burcin ^a   Siddiqui, Mohsin K ^b   Brilakis, Ioannis ^c   El Anwar, Omar ^d   El Gohary, Nora ^e   Mahfouz, Tarek ^f   Jog, Gauri M ^g   Li, Shuai ^a   Kandil, Amr A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e United States of America   (United States)

^f BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil engineering; Data sensing; Grand challenges; Information analysis; Knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

COAL ASH; DATA MINING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GROUNDWATER; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SEA LEVEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WATER QUALITY;

CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY; DATA SENSING; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; GRAND CHALLENGE; INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; WEB-BASED SURVEYS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84902439114     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000290     Document Type: Article

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