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

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）。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，以最大限度地提高其集体生命周期价值。为了实现这一目标，该CAREER奖的研究目标是考虑利益相关者的价值（安全，经济增长等）。通过发现和形式化“民用基础设施系统的价值论（一种价值理论）”、其在价值建模和模拟中的应用及其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发挥作用。研究方法包括实证调查、数学建模、语义建模（计算机可理解且含义丰富）和语义模拟。如果成功，本研究将提供模型，以评估基础设施项目的价值，在业主意识的方式。这些模型将为征集和调整公众对基础设施系统的价值和期望提供结构，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将价值理论形式化的科学）。它还将通过提供可以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。该项目将涉及教育和外联活动，将研究成果纳入课程和外联材料，吸引本科生和研究生，并接触K-3儿童和女高中生。这些努力将有助于培养“未来工程师”，他们融合了知识、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.