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

这个教师早期职业发展（Career）计划奖项的目标是理解、预测和分析土木工程决策对土木基础设施系统的环境、社会和经济价值的影响，为其利益相关者（居民、公司等）。其目的是提高我们在如何规划、设计、建造和运营民用基础设施系统方面的知识，使其集体生命周期价值最大化。为了实现这一目标，本次CAREER奖的研究目标是通过发现和形式化“民用基础设施系统价值论（一种价值理论）”，在价值建模和仿真中的应用，以及在价值敏感决策背景下的验证，在基础设施项目规划和设计决策中考虑利益相关者的价值（安全、经济增长等）。研究方法包括实证调查、数学建模、语义（计算机可理解和意义丰富）建模和语义仿真。如果成功，这项研究将为以利益相关者意识的方式评估基础设施项目的价值提供模型。这些模型将为征求和协调公众对基础设施系统的价值观和期望提供框架，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。这项研究将推动“价值科学”（试图用数学和逻辑的形式化来形式化价值理论的科学）。它还将通过提供指导基础设施系统决策的价值理论来推进决策理论的基础研究。该项目将包括教育和推广活动，将研究成果纳入课程作业和推广材料，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“未来的工程师”，他们具有知识、技能和对土木工程在社会中的作用和影响的人文理解。

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.