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Events for the 5th week of June
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Admin/Leadership Seminar
Mon, Jun 27, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Lucio Soibelman, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: Not Available.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Department Only
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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The Role of Data Management and Data Mining in Infrastructure Management
Mon, Jun 27, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Abstract: It is certainly no surprise that construction and operations of infrastructure systems require a huge amount of information from specifications, plans, construction documents, inventory management, cost estimating, and scheduling, for the construction phase and maintenance records, and inspections and
sensor data from the operations phase. As this industry adopts new computer technologies, computerized construction/operations data are becoming more and more available. There exist numerous opportunities to exploit and extract knowledge from the vast amount of infrastructure data.
Unlike much previous research in Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) that has been successfully applied in several domains, in the infrastructure domain, however, the data are of multiple types and from many different sources, some with very low quality. Professor Soibelman will be introducing the
results obtained from several data centric studies developed by his research team at the CMU Advanced Infrastructure Systems group.
Biography: Professor Soibelman obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degrees from the Civil Engineering Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He worked as a construction manager for 10 years before moving in 1993 to the US where he obtained in 1998 his PhD in Civil Engineering Systems
from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1998 he started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In 2004 he moved as an Associate Professor to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and in 2008 he was promoted at CMU to Professor. During the last 12 years he focused his research on advanced data acquisition, management, visualization, and mining for construction and operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over 100 books, books chapters, journal papers, conference articles, and reports and performed research with funding from NSF (NSF career award and several other NSF grants), NASA, DOE, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, RedZone Robotics, US Army, and NIST among many others funding agencies. His areas of interest are: Use of information technology for economic development, information technology support for construction management,process integration during the development of large‐scale engineering systems, information logistics, artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge discovery, image reasoning, text mining, machine learning, advanced infrastructure systems, sensors, streaming data, data driven sustainability, and Multireasoning Mechanisms. He is the current Editor in‐chief of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering and the past chair of the ASCE Construction Institute Construction Research Council.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 Conference Room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Jun 30, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Han-Lim Choi , Division of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST
Talk Title: Robust Planning of Distributed Robotic Agents
Abstract: This seminar presents high-level planning approaches for networked robotic agents when the mission objective is to extract information in a dynamic uncertain environment. The talk discusses methodologies to perform robust distributed task planning for a heterogeneous team of agents performing cooperative missions. We
present the consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA) which is a decentralized cooperative iterative auction algorithm for assigning tasks to agents. CBBA uses two phases to achieve a conflict-free task assignment. A key feature of CBBA is that its consensus protocol aims at agreement on the winning bids and corresponding winning agents (i.e., consensus in the spaces of decision variables and objective function). This enables CBBA to create conflict-free solutions that are relatively robust to inconsistencies in the current situational awareness. Recent extensions to handle more realistic multi-UAV operational complications such as communication limitation and coupling in mission descriptions will also be reported.
Biography: Dr. Han-Lim Choi is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in 2002 and 2002, respectively, and his PhD degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2008. He then studied for one and a half years at MIT as a postdoctoral associate until he has joined KAIST in 2010. His current research interests include estimation and control for sensor networks, decision making for multi-gent systems, and resource management for power-aware systems. He is a member of IEEE and AIAA; he is selected to be awarded
Automatica Best Applications Paper Prize with his paper on continuous trajectory planning of mobile sensors for informative forecasting.
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal