Engineering Education: Intelligent Agents Approach

This project is an effort of George Mason University researchers working with NASA to develop enhanced education and training environments of future aerospace workforce.

The research has two major interrelated components. The first component is the development of a novel methodology for building intelligent tutoring systems utilizing state-of-the-art computer science, including the technology of intelligent agents. The second component is actually building a tutoring system based on the developed methodology to demonstrate its feasibility. The demonstration will be done in the area of personal air vehicles.

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Researchers Probe How Well Streets Perform

Researchers in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) and the Department of Psychology are investigating what is important to travelers on urban streets and are developing research protocol and methods to estimate users’ perceived performance of these streets.

Their efforts may give policy makers the tools to understand the impact of their design choices.

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Homeland Security

Publications

2005

Skolicki, Z., Houck, M. H., and Arciszewski, T. (2005). "Improving the security of water distribution systems using a co-evolutionary approach." Proceedings of the Working Together: Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA, USA. (poster presentation)

Arciszewski, T., and Kicinger, R. (2005). "Proactive security: From evolutionary approaches to cellular automata." Proceedings of the Working Together: Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (poster presentation)

Skolicki, Z., Venigalla, M., and Arciszewski, T. (2005). "Security of transportation systems: An evolutionary approach." Proceedings of the Working Together: Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA, USA. (poster presentation)

Skolicki, Z., Wadda, M. M., Houck, M. H., and Arciszewski, T. (2005). "Water supply threat reduction using evolutionary approaches." Proceedings of the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute Conference, Alaska, USA. (submitted)

Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., Houck, M. H., and De Jong, K. A. (2005). "Emerging security patterns: Co-evolution of terrorist and security scenarios." Proceedings of the The Tenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing & The Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, B. H. V. Topping, ed., Rome, Italy. (submitted)

2004

Wadda, M. M., Skolicki, Z., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. (2004). "Generation of terrorist scenarios for water distribution systems: An evolutionary computation approach." Proceedings of the 11th International EG-ICE Workshop, Weimar, Germany, 110-119.

Brooke, K., Dopart, K., Smith, T., and Flannery, A. (2004). "Sharing Information between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management." NCHRP Report 520, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

Bronzini, M., and Dave, P. (2004). "Technologies for vehicle, operator, and cargo identification." The Critical Infrastructure Protection Program: Workshop II Working Papers, A. Woodcock and C. Pommerening, eds., School of Law, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 171-182.

Jowitt, P. W., Cavill, S. J., Bouchart, F. J.-C., and Houck, M. H. (2004). "Crisis event flow and contamination modelling with limited data." Proceedings of the American Water Works Association Conference on Information Management and Technology, Baltimore, MD, USA.

2003

Arciszewski, T., De Jong, K. A., Sage, A., Goode, M., Kicinger, R., and Skolicki, Z. (2003). "Proactive infrastructure security: evolutionary generation of terrorist scenarios." Proceedings of the Workshop on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Project, A. Woodcock and K. Thomas, eds., Washington, DC, USA, 378-391.

Bronzini, M. (2003). "Transportation infrastructure security: Innovative technology for vehicle, operator and cargo identification." Proceedings of the Workshop on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Project, A. Woodcock and K. Thomas, eds., Washington, DC, USA, 372-377.