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	Overview D2K - Data to Knowledge D2K Streamline I2K - Image to Knowledge T2K - Text to Knowledge E2K - Evolution to Knowledge ThemeWeaver	The information on this page is outdated. For current information on the MAEViz project, please see http://maeviz.cee.uiuc.edu. Overview Tech Notes Documentation FAQs Download / Licensing Demos and Tutorials The MAE Center The MAE Center--or Mid-America Earthquake Center--develops research methods and tools to support Consequence Based Engineering, or CBE. Consequence-based engineering is a new paradigm for seismic risk reduction across regions or systems that incorporates identification of uncertainty in all components of seismic risk modeling and quantifies the risk to societal systems and subsystems. It enables policy-makers and decision-makers to ultimately develop risk reduction strategies and implement mitigation actions. Located on the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus in the Department of Civil Engineering, the MAE Center collaborates with the Automated Learning Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a leader in software infrastructure supporting scientific and engineering research. This work is supported by the Mid-America Earthquake Center through the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under NSF Award No. EEC-970785. MAEViz The result of this collaboration is MAEViz, a tool that integrates spatial information, data, and visual information into an environment for performing seismic loss assessment and analysis. Because MAEViz is one interface that integrates a variety of data sources and types of data, it will prove useful to a variety of users, including: working engineers, state departments of transportation, insurance companies and other stakeholders. MAEViz follows the CBE methodology using a visually based, menu driven system to generate damage estimates from scientific and engineering principles, test multiple mitigation strategies, and support modeling efforts to estimate higher level impacts of earthquake hazards, such as impacts on transportation networks, social, or economic systems. MAEViz is built upon the Automated Learning Group's Data to Knowledge (D2K) software framework. D2K is a visual programming environment that allows users to connect programming modules together to build applications. It supplies a core set of modules, application templates, and a standard API for software component development. The D2K framework integrates distributed computational and data management resources to support collaboration and larger-scale analyses. MAEViz supports a variety of interactive display environments, from single user displays to large format, multi-projector displays to 3D virtual reality displays. The 3D virtual reality environment utilizes the "CUBE," an immersive stereo display environment developed at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The CUBE will immerse the stakeholder in the data and in the modeling results to assist in the decision making process. The CUBE uses 6-sided stereo projection to immerse the user in a 3 dimensional world for viewing the data. For more information, please view the MAEViz project page.
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