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Special Issue: ICCBEI 2013
Advanced Engineering Informatics 29 (2015) 840
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Guest Editorial
Special Issue: ICCBEI 2013 The 1st International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2013) was successfully held at Tokyo International Exchange Center (Plaza Heisei) in Tokyo, Japan on November 7–8, 2013. ICCBEI has been built from the foundation of the prior series of Asian Construction Information Technology Roundtable Meetings, sponsored by Committee on Civil Engineering Informatics (CCEI) of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and Japan Construction Information Center (JACIC). ICCBEI has been and will be held in the odd number years in Asia. This organization respects the schedule of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), organized by International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE), which is held in the even number years. The motivation behind the ICCBEI event is that Asia did not have any regular international conference in computing in civil and building engineering, while Europe and North America have the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE) Workshop and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering (IWCCE), respectively. The Board of Directors (BOD) of Asian Group for Civil Engineering Informatics (AGCEI) decided to organize the 1st ICCBEI in 2013 in Tokyo. Although ICCBEI is basically held in Asia, it is a true international conference and we welcome participants from all over the world. The 2nd ICCBEI was held on April 22–23, 2015 at Tokyo Convention Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The 3rd ICCBEI will be held in 2017 in Taiwan. The conference theme of ICCBEI 2013 was applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to Civil, Building, and Environmental Engineering, including, but not limited to, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Construction Information Modeling (CIM), Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), laser scanning, sensors, monitoring, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), visualization, computer-aided construction, robotics, product and process modeling, Big Data, cooperative design, High Performance Computing (HPC), simulation, Multi-Agent System (MAS), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), computer-aided structural control and analysis, ICT in geotechnical engineering, computational mechanics, asset management, maintenance, urban planning, Facility Management (FM), Smart City, Building and Home Energy Management Systems (BEMS/HEMS), etc. The objective of this conference was to report and disseminate ideas, progress, and products of innovative international research activities in this
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2015.11.002 1474-0346/Ó 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
exciting field and formulate strategies for future direction. In response to our Call for Papers, we received 80 full papers, of which 70 were accepted by the International Scientific Committee after rigorous reviews. The proceedings include these 70 accepted papers with one keynote paper. After ICCBEI 2013, all 70 papers appeared in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and 10 papers were selected and invited to submit modified and extended papers to the Special Issue of this journal. All submitted manuscripts were rigorously reviewed and as a result, five papers have selected to appear in this Special Issue. Hiroshi Masuda et al. address generation of Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) and compression of point cloud for vehicle-based mobile mapping systems. Satoshi Nishiyama et al. propose and investigate an improved digital photogrammetry technique for crack monitoring. Masayuki Saeki et al. provide a laboratory experiment of the structural sensing method using an accurate artificial vibrator. Amir Behzadan et al. propose a method for recognizing construction equipment activity to simulate input modeling using mobile sensors and machine learning classifiers. And finally, Jack C. P. Cheng et al. formulate and analyze the dynamic supply chain of backfill in construction waste management using agent-based modeling. The guest editor would like to express his sincere gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor William O’Brien, for his constant and patient support and encouragement in every aspect of the publication process of this Special Issue. We would like to thank all the reviewers and all the authors for their contribution to this Special Issue. We hope that readers of this journal will be inspired by the selected papers from ICCBEI 2013 featured in this Special Issue and expect more researchers will participate in the coming ICCBEI conference series. President of AGCEI, Chair, ICCBEI 2013 Nobuyoshi Yabuki Professor, Ph.D. Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Advanced Engineering Informatics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/aei
Guest Editorial
Special Issue: ICCBEI 2013 The 1st International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2013) was successfully held at Tokyo International Exchange Center (Plaza Heisei) in Tokyo, Japan on November 7–8, 2013. ICCBEI has been built from the foundation of the prior series of Asian Construction Information Technology Roundtable Meetings, sponsored by Committee on Civil Engineering Informatics (CCEI) of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and Japan Construction Information Center (JACIC). ICCBEI has been and will be held in the odd number years in Asia. This organization respects the schedule of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), organized by International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE), which is held in the even number years. The motivation behind the ICCBEI event is that Asia did not have any regular international conference in computing in civil and building engineering, while Europe and North America have the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE) Workshop and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering (IWCCE), respectively. The Board of Directors (BOD) of Asian Group for Civil Engineering Informatics (AGCEI) decided to organize the 1st ICCBEI in 2013 in Tokyo. Although ICCBEI is basically held in Asia, it is a true international conference and we welcome participants from all over the world. The 2nd ICCBEI was held on April 22–23, 2015 at Tokyo Convention Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The 3rd ICCBEI will be held in 2017 in Taiwan. The conference theme of ICCBEI 2013 was applications of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to Civil, Building, and Environmental Engineering, including, but not limited to, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Construction Information Modeling (CIM), Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), laser scanning, sensors, monitoring, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR), visualization, computer-aided construction, robotics, product and process modeling, Big Data, cooperative design, High Performance Computing (HPC), simulation, Multi-Agent System (MAS), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), computer-aided structural control and analysis, ICT in geotechnical engineering, computational mechanics, asset management, maintenance, urban planning, Facility Management (FM), Smart City, Building and Home Energy Management Systems (BEMS/HEMS), etc. The objective of this conference was to report and disseminate ideas, progress, and products of innovative international research activities in this
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2015.11.002 1474-0346/Ó 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
exciting field and formulate strategies for future direction. In response to our Call for Papers, we received 80 full papers, of which 70 were accepted by the International Scientific Committee after rigorous reviews. The proceedings include these 70 accepted papers with one keynote paper. After ICCBEI 2013, all 70 papers appeared in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and 10 papers were selected and invited to submit modified and extended papers to the Special Issue of this journal. All submitted manuscripts were rigorously reviewed and as a result, five papers have selected to appear in this Special Issue. Hiroshi Masuda et al. address generation of Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) and compression of point cloud for vehicle-based mobile mapping systems. Satoshi Nishiyama et al. propose and investigate an improved digital photogrammetry technique for crack monitoring. Masayuki Saeki et al. provide a laboratory experiment of the structural sensing method using an accurate artificial vibrator. Amir Behzadan et al. propose a method for recognizing construction equipment activity to simulate input modeling using mobile sensors and machine learning classifiers. And finally, Jack C. P. Cheng et al. formulate and analyze the dynamic supply chain of backfill in construction waste management using agent-based modeling. The guest editor would like to express his sincere gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor William O’Brien, for his constant and patient support and encouragement in every aspect of the publication process of this Special Issue. We would like to thank all the reviewers and all the authors for their contribution to this Special Issue. We hope that readers of this journal will be inspired by the selected papers from ICCBEI 2013 featured in this Special Issue and expect more researchers will participate in the coming ICCBEI conference series. President of AGCEI, Chair, ICCBEI 2013 Nobuyoshi Yabuki Professor, Ph.D. Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan E-mail address: [email protected]