Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board

A escassez de recursos hídricos é o fator mais limitante da produção agrícola no município Estreito, MA. irregularidade na distribuição das chuvas durante ano, característica regiões tropicais, faz com que a atividade em assim como outras cidades do estado Maranhão reduzam época seca. Diante desse cenário, busca por meios visem melhorar eficiência irrigação para gerenciamento sustentável água s...

The problem of programming computers to produce natural language explanations and other texts on demand is an active research area in artificial intelligence. In the past, research systems designed for this purpose have been limited by the weakness of their linguistic bases, especially their grammars, and their techniques often cannot be transferred to new knowledge domains. A new text generati...

The development of an integrated knowledgebased machine-aided translation system based on Systemic Linguistics. Parts of the system are to function as modules to be incorporated in the MAT system being codeveloped with CMU and CRL. Our work involves the enhancement of Penman's existing parsing technology to match the level of the language generation system; the development of ancillary knowledg...

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board

evaporation is a fundamental parameter in the hydrological cycle. this study examines the performance of m5model tree and artificial neural network (ann) models in estimating potential evapotranspiration calculated bypenman- monteith and hargreaves- samani equations. daily weather data from two meteorological stations in asemi-arid climate of iran, namely kerman and zahedan, were collected duri...

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board