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Formalizing Laws and Regulations for Automatic Situational Analysis

This project focuses on formalizing laws and regulations to enable automatic situational analysis, with a specific focus on regulations for accessibility and safety in buildings. The objective is to develop a practical infrastructure to enhance the access and retrieval of government regulations, while providing intermediate access and validating and comparing rules.

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Formalizing Laws and Regulations for Automatic Situational Analysis

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  1. REGNET projects: Formalizing Laws and Regulationsfor Automatic Situational Analysis Kincho H. Law (CEE), Gio Wiederhold(CS), Jim Leckie(CEE), Barton Thompson(Law), Mike Genesereth (CS), et al, Stanford University Stanford, CA Acknowledgement: The slides are based on the research work by various students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Computer Science Departments, Stanford University

  2. The Public and Scientific Problem • Regulations are established to protect the public • Many organizations set regulations • Regulations greatly constrain businesses actions • Interpretation of regulations is costly and inconsistent • Regulations are written in natural language • They are often incomplete, sometimes conflicting • The objects being regulated are often encoded • Many levels of translation are needed Regnet intro

  3. Applications investigated Objectives: check compliance • Disabled access: • participants: • architects, building owners, the disabled & the federal and local governments • Waste disposal: • participants: • generators, haulers, sites & the governments – protecting us • There are 100’s of other areas Regnet intro

  4. General REGNET Process • Capture texts from legal and agency sources • Establish ontologies to formalize meaning • Translate texts into processable forms • provides intermediate access • Extract rules in terms of applications • validate and compare rules • Apply rules to design or processes • Display results, typically graphically, to participants Regnet intro

  5. Scope and Emphasis • To develop a formal but practical infrastructure to enhance the access and retrieval of government regulations • Pilot research application focuses on regulations for assuring, for the handicapped, accessibility to buildings and safe egress in emergencies Regnet intro

  6. On-Line Code Checker : Relating Analysis Results to Code Document Regnet intro

  7. Code Document Entity and violation Regnet intro

  8. G I Performance-Based Evaluation: Motion Planning 13” 46” 33” 26” Wheelchair (Robot) Model Regnet intro

  9. Example Path Width Definition ADAAG Definition: 4.3.3 Width. The minimum clear width of an accessible route shall be 36 in (915 mm) except at doors (see 4.13.5 and 4.13.6). If a person in a wheelchair must make a turn around an obstruction, the minimum clear width of the accessible route shall be as shown in Fig. 7(a) and (b). Alternate Definition: Variances will be allowed for accessible route configurations that adhere to the ergonomic and anthropometric parameters set forth in this document that can be demonstrated visually, either manually or computationally. Regnet intro

  10. Recommendations to the Owner and Agencies • Remove men’s bathroom stall partitions • Make all rooms “Usable” • Widen door openings • Rearrange room furniture • Alternative definition of the Accessible Route • Alternative definitions of route components • Performance-based allowances • Explicit Statement relating: • Accessibility to Functionality of Spaces Regnet intro

  11. Information Flow in Hazardous Waste Regulation Compliance Checking Collaboration among generators, services, and regulators. Regulator TSDF Explanation and interpretation for Codes Regulation codes Records of waste streams Instructions for how to conduct compliance checking Compliance records for hazardous waste Generator Regnet intro

  12. Proposed Distributed Information Management System for Hazardous Waste Compliance Checking Users (Critics, Public) Regulator (Federal EPA) Regulator (State EPA) Information Brokerage Reporting and compliance checking info management Information security management Regulation code information management TSDF TSDF Generator Generator Regnet intro

  13. Hierarchical Structure with Embedded Links in Regulation Provisions Section 262.11 Hazardous waste determination. …… (a) He should first determine if the waste is excluded from regulation under 40CFR 261.4. (b) He must then determine if the waste is listed as a hazardous waste in subpart D of 4 0 CFR part 261. …... Regnet intro

  14. A System Architecture for Hazardous Waste Compliance Checking Regnet intro

  15. RegNet Research Motivations and Goals • Research motivations • What is an appropriate model for a information management system for compliance checking? • How to build such a system • How to deal with the conflicting objectives? • Research goal • Developing information management frameworks that can improve the efficiency of regulation compliance and facilitate the compliance process. Regnet intro

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