Decision-making for engineering systems management can be efficiently formulated using
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) or Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs). Typical …

Determination of inspection and maintenance policies for minimizing long-term risks and
costs in deteriorating engineering environments constitutes a complex optimization problem …

The issue of the optimal planning of inspection and maintenance actions for a randomly
deteriorating system constitutes a difficult sequential decision-making problem in which the …

Efficient integration of uncertain observations with decision-making optimization is key for
prescribing informed intervention actions, able to preserve structural safety of deteriorating …

Civil and maritime engineering systems must be efficiently managed to control the failure
risk at an acceptable level as their performance is gradually degraded throughout the …

Accurate and timely assessment of pavement condition is critical to determine optimal
maintenance plans. Due to the high costs of ground-based inspections, agencies often limit …

Inspection is a crucial activity for an engineered system as its results can reduce the
uncertainty of identifying the true states of the system and its components, so as to facilitate …

The use of data in the construction industry is growing rapidly. However, projects that do not
have multiple stages, such as pile foundation and cantilever wall construction, are difficult to …

This research aims at establishing the feasibility of applying satellite data and machine
learning (ML) to pavement applications as a way to envision the future of infrastructure asset …

This project advances technologies to support strategic planning of maintenance, repair,
and rehabilitation options (improvement actions) and their implementation prioritization for …