Committee on Emerging Computing Technology

Analysis and Computation TAC

ASCE Structural Division

Minutes of Meeting, April 26, 1994

1994 Structures Congress
Atlanta, Georgia

April, 26, 1994

Attendees:

Nelson Baker, Georgia Tech
John Baugh, North Carolina State University
Stuart Chen, SUNY at Buffalo
Mohamed Elkordy, New York State DOT
Osman Hag-Elsafi, New York State DOT
Jay Ernst, University of Kansas
Magdi A. Khalifa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Meg Neggers, Premisys
Richard Sause, Lehigh University


1.	Call to order and introduction of attendees.

The meeting was called to order by John Baugh. Committee chairperson Jim Garrett
did not attend because he was out of the country.  The meeting began at 5:45pm.
Richard Sause agreed to be recording secretary for the meeting.  The attendees
introduced themselves and signed an attendance sheet.


2.	Agenda.

Each attendee was provided an agenda and the agenda was approved.


3.	Review and approval of minutes of last meeting (June 8, 1993).

The minutes were approved with the addition of Nelson Baker as an attendee of
the last meeting.


4.	Status reports.

(a) Committee status.  The committee is still a subcommittee of the Analysis
and Computation TAC.  John Baugh reported that the efforts of the ECT have been
warmly received and appreciated by Franklin Cheng.  Full committee status is
apparently possible and Franklin Cheng appears to be supportive of this.

(b) Review of technical activity report.

(c) Current and future membership. 


5.	Status of current activity.

(a) C++/FORTRAN 90 and Neural network workshops.  The planned workshops at the
1994 Structures Congress were cancelled due to insufficient registration.  The
main reasons for this were excessive costs ($250) and coordination problems
with ASCE staff.






(b) The special issue of the Journal of Computing in CE on neural networks
is coming together.  10 of 18 papers submitted have been accepted for the
journal, with 8 to appear in the special issue.

(c) 1995 Structures Congress.  A session on logic programming was proposed.  It
is not known if this session was accepted.  The session was organized by
Sivand Lakmazaheri, Stuart Chen, and Kim Roddis.  The poster session on fuzzy
logic was requested to be elevated to a full session.  The status of this
request is not known.

(d) Joint activity with TCCP.  Two sessions at the First Congress on Computing
in CE (Washington, DC, June, 1994) are co-sponsored by ECT: "Recent Advances in
Representation, Processing Strategies, and Authoring Environments for Codes,
Regulations and Standards," and "Technology Transfer - Moving from Research to
Practice."


6.	Future technical activities.

(a) Session proposals for 1996 Structures Congress. Several committees under the
Analysis and Computation TAC have proposed sessions.  ECT has not yet proposed
any.  The deadline is June 16, 1994.  John Baugh referred to the ECT mission
statement and read the topics identified.  Several possible sessions and
organizers were identified:

	ECT in Practice - Mohamed ElKordy
	Life Cycle Structural Models - Meg Neggers
	Computer Technologies for Life-Long Learning - Nelson Baker
	Computational Support for Intelligent Structures - Stuart Chen
	Demystifying the Alphabet Soup of ECT- John Baugh and ECT Committee

Session proposers will send copies of their proposal to Hani Melham (ECT
Secretary) and bring copies to the Computing Congress in Washington.

(b) Proposed workshops for 1996 Structures Congress. These will be deferred.


7.	New activities.

(a) New research areas.  Nelson Baker will post a message to the bulletin board
requesting information on new areas.

(b) Activity with Eurpoean AI Community.  Richard Sause will contact Barry
Topping to inquire about participation of ECT in the 1995 CivilComp conference.


8.	Adjournment.

Time not noted.


Submitted by:
   
	Richard Sause (acting recording secretary)