Bridges play a crucial role in modern societies, regardless of their culture, geographical
location, or economic development. The safest, economical, and most resilient bridges are …

The concept of Value of Information (VoI) has attracted significant attentions within the civil
engineering community over especially the last decade. Triggered by the increasing focus …

This paper develops a novel multi-classifier information fusion approach that integrates the
probabilistic support vector machine (SVM) and the improved Dempster-Shafer (DS) …

The difficulty in quantifying the benefit of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for decision
support is one of the bottlenecks to an extensive adoption of SHM on real-world structures …

Quantifying the value of the information extracted from a structural health monitoring (SHM)
system is an important step towards convincing decision makers to implement these …

Structural damage detection using inclinometers is getting wide attention from researchers.
However, the high price of inclinometers limits this system to unique structures with a …

Nowadays, engineers are widely using accelerometers to record the vibration of structures
for structural verification purposes. The main obstacle for using these data acquisition …

Abstract Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) describes a process for inferring quantifiable
metrics of structural condition, which can serve as input to support decisions on the …

Abstract Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can model complex
sequential decision-making problems under stochastic and uncertain environments. A main …

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 …