CAREER: Axiological Modeling and Simulation for Value-Sensitive Infrastructure Project Planning and Design

职业：价值敏感的基础设施项目规划和设计的价值论建模和仿真

• 批准号: 1254679
• 负责人: Nora El-Gohary
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1254679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Axiological; Modeling; Simulation; Value

The goal of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is to understand, predict, and analyze the impact of civil engineering decisions on the environmental, social, and economic value of civil infrastructure systems for its stakeholders (residents, firms, etc.). This aims at advancing our knowledge of how to plan, design, construct, and operate our civil infrastructure systems in a way that maximizes its collective life cycle value. In order to achieve this goal, the research objective of this CAREER award is to account for stakeholder values (safety, economic growth, etc.) in infrastructure project planning and design decision-making through the discovery and formalization of "axiology (a theory of value) of civil infrastructure systems", its application in value modeling and simulation, and its validation in the context of value-sensitive decision-making. The research methodology involves empirical investigations, mathematical modeling, semantic (computer-understandable and meaning-rich) modeling, and semantic simulation.If successful, this research will provide models for assessing the value of infrastructure projects in a stakeholder-conscious way. These models will offer the structure for soliciting and aligning public values and expectations about infrastructure systems and can guide the planning and design of solutions that are socially-equitable, economically-effective, and environmentally-viable. This research will advance the "science of value" (the science that attempts to formalize value theory using mathematical and logic formalisms). It will also advance the fundamental research in decision theory by offering a value theory that may guide infrastructure system decision-making. This project will involve educational and outreach activities to integrate research findings into coursework and outreach material, engage undergraduate and graduate students, and reach out to K-3 children and female high-school students. These efforts will help foster the "engineer of the future" who has a blend of knowledge, skill, and humanistic understanding of the role and impact of civil engineering in society.

该学院早期职业发展(Career)计划奖的目标是了解、预测和分析土木工程决策对其利益相关者(居民、公司等)的土木工程基础设施系统的环境、社会和经济价值的影响。这旨在提高我们对如何规划、设计、建造和运营我们的民用基础设施系统的知识，以使其集体生命周期价值最大化。为了实现这一目标，这一职业奖项的研究目标是考虑利益相关者的价值观(安全、经济增长等)。在基础设施项目规划和设计决策中，通过“民用基础设施系统的价值论(价值理论)”的发现和形式化，其在价值建模和模拟中的应用，以及其在对价值敏感的决策背景下的验证，在基础设施项目规划和设计决策中的应用。研究方法包括实证调查、数学建模、语义(计算机可理解和语义丰富)建模和语义模拟，如果成功，本研究将提供利益相关者意识的基础设施项目价值评估模型。这些模型将提供征求和协调公众对基础设施系统的价值观和期望的结构，并可以指导社会公平、经济有效和环境可行的解决方案的规划和设计。这项研究将推进“价值科学”(试图使用数学和逻辑形式主义来形式化价值理论的科学)。为指导基础设施系统决策提供价值理论，从而推动决策理论的基础性研究。该项目将包括教育和推广活动，以将研究成果纳入课程和推广材料，吸引本科生和研究生，并接触到K-3儿童和女高中生。这些努力将有助于培养“未来工程师”，他对土木工程在社会中的作用和影响具有知识、技能和人文理解的交融。