PUBLICATIONS

2006

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "A Prototype Study on Electronic-Rulemaking," accepted for publiation,  Encyclopedia of Digital Government, 2006.

G. T. Lau, H. Wang, and K. H. Law. "Locating Related Regulations Using a Comparative Analysis Approach," submitted to the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2006), San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2006.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis of Government Regulations using Domain Knowledge and Structural Organization," submitted to Information Retrieval.

2005

S. L. Kerrigan and K. H. Law. "A Regulation-Centric, Logic-Based Compliance Assistance Framework ,"  Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 19(1):1-15, 2005.

W. Labiosa. A Probabilistic Decision Analytical Approach for Watershed Planning: A Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load Case Study, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, CA, 2005.

W. Labiosa, J. Leckie, R. Shachter, D. Freyberg, and J. Rytuba. "Incorporating Uncertainty in Watershed Management Decision-Making: A Mercury TMDL Case Study," paper presented at Watershed Management Conference: Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts, Williamsburg, VA, July19-22, 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Comparative Analysis of Government Regulations Using Structural and Domain Information," IEEE Computer, 38(12):70-76, Dec 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis Tool for Comparing Drafted Regulations and the Associated Public Comments," Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society , 1(1):95-110, 2005.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Legal Information Retrieval and Application to E-Rulemaking," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2005), Bologna, Italy, pp. 146-154, Jun 6-11, 2005.

G. T. Lau, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Relatedness Analysis Approach for Regulation Comparison and E-Rulemaking Applications," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2005), Atlanta, GA, pp. 69-77, May 15-18, 2005.

X. Pan, C. S. Han, K. Dauber and K. H. Law. "Human and Social Behavior in Computational Modeling and Analysis of Egress," (in press) Automation in Construction, 2005.

X. Pan, C. S. Han, K. Dauber and K. H. Law. "A Multi-agent Based Framework for the Simulation of Human and Social Behaviors during Emergency Evacuations,"  Social Intelligence Design, Stanford University, March 24-26, 2005.

X. Pan, C. S. Han and K. H. Law. "A Multi-agent Based Simulation Framework for the Study of Human and Social Behavior in Egress Analysis," Proceedings of the ASCE 2005 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July 12-15, 2005.

X. Pan, C. S. Han, K. Dauber and K. H. Law. "Human and Social Behavior in Computational Modeling and Analysis of Egress," Proceedings of the First Conference on the Future of the AEC Industry, Building Futures Council, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 189-204, March 16 - 17, 2005.

X. Pan,  C. S. Han, and K. H. Law. "Using Motion-Planning to Determine the Existence of an Accessible Route in a CAD Environment," (submitted for publication) Assistive Technology, 2005.

2004

W. B. Labiosa, R. D. Shachter, J. O. Leckie, and J. Rytuba. "A Bayesian Network-Based Decision Analysis Approach to Watershed Management Decisions," CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Paper Track 33, May 16-19, 2004.

G. T. Lau. A Comparative Analysis Framework for Semi-Structured Documents, with Applications to Government Regulations, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 2004.

G. T. Lau and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Comparing Accessibility Regulations and Related Information from Multiple Sources," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Weimar, Germany, June 2-4, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, H. Wang, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. "A Software Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan, K. H. Law and G. Wiederhold. " An E-Government Information Architecture for Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance , " Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Delft, The Netherlands, October 25-27, 2004.

J. Wang, J. O. Leckie, K. H. Law, G. Wiederhold. "Distributed Information Organization and Management Framework for Regulation Compliance," Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 37), MiniTracks E-Government Cluster, January 5-8, 2004.

2003

S. Kerrigan. A Software Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 2003.

S. Kerrigan, and K. H. Law. "Logic-Based Regulation Compliance-Assistance," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2003), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2003.

S. Kerrigan, C. Heenan, H. Wang, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.

W. B. Labiosa, J. O. Leckie, T. Mumley, J. Rytuba, and R. Bernknopf. "A Decision Analysis Approach to TMDL Implementation: Mercury TMDLs in the San Francisco Bay Area," Proceedings of the National TMDL Science and Policy Specialty Conference, Water Environment Federation, Chicago, IL, November 16-18, 2003.

G. T. Lau, S. Kerrigan and K. H. Law. "An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulations," Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Seattle, Washington, December 13-14, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "Similarity Analysis on Government Regulations,"  Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 111-117, Washington, DC, August 24-27, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and G. Wiederhold. "A Framework for Regulation Comparison with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2003), pp. 251-254, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.

G. T. Lau, K. H. Law, and B. Kumar. "A Regulatory Information Infrastructure with Application to Accessibility Codes," Proceedings of Include 2003: Inclusive Design for Society and Business, pp. 65-71, London, March 25-28, 2003.

2002

C. Han. Computer Models and Methods for a Disabled Access Analysis Design Environment, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, June 2002.

C. Han, J. C. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Compliance Analysis for Disabled Access," Advances in Digital Government Technology, Human Factors, and Policy. William J. McIver, Jr. and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (eds), pp. 149-163, Kluwer, Boston, MA, 2002.

C. Heenan. Manual and Technology-Based Approaches to Using Classification for the Facilitation of Access to Unstructured Text (unpublished manuscript), Engineering Informatics Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, January, 2002.

C. Heenan. A Review of Academic Research on Information Retrieval (unpublished manuscript), Engineering Informatics Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, August, 2002.

S. Kerrigan, C. Heenan, and K. H. Law. "Regnet: An Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, pp. 377-382, Los Angeles, CA, May 20-22, 2002.

G. T. Lau. REGBASE: An Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Comparative Analysis, (unpublished manuscript), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2002.

2001

S. Kerrigan, G. Lau, L. Zhou, G. Wiederhold, and K. H. Law. "Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking," Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, pp. 167-170, Los Angeles, CA, May 21-23, 2001.

2000

C. Han. Computer Models and Methods for a Disabled Access Analysis Design Environment, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 2000.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "A Distributed Object Component-based Approach to Large-scale Engineering Systems and an Example Component Using Motion Planning Techniques for Disabled Access Usability Analysis," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (VIII-ICCCBE), Palo Alto, CA, August 14-16, 2000.

1999 And Before

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Making Automated Building Code Checking a Reality," Facility Management Journal, pp. 22-28, September/October, 1997.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Client/Server Framework for On-Line Building Code Checking," Journal on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE 12(4):181-194, 1998.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Internet-Based Computer-Aided Design: Leveraging Product Model, Distributed Object, and World Wide Web Standards," Structures Congress, ASCE, San Francisco, CA, Paper Ref: T191-4, July, 1998.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "Building Design Services in a Distributed Architecture," Journal on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE 13(1): 12-22, 1999.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "An Internet-Based Distributed Building Design Service Framework," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Durability of Building Materials and Components, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 2590-2600, 1999.

C. Han, C. J. Kunz, and K. H. Law. "An Internet-Based Distributed Service Architecture," Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 12-15, 1999.