Mid-America Earthquake Center Seismic Loss Assessment System. "MAEviz is a joint effort between the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to develop the next generation of seismic risk assessment software. MAEviz is leveraging off NCSA's cyber environment efforts and the University of Michigan's Sakai collaborator to provide an advanced framework for earthquake engineering, as well as general hazard and risk research, harnessing multi-institutional expertise, as well as existing and new tools across a broad range of technologies. The open-source framework of MAEviz employs the latest and most advanced workflow tools to provide a flexible and modular conduit through which the culmination of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts of the MAE Center are integrated and delivered to end-users. MAEviz follows the Consequence-based Risk Management methodology using a visually-based, menu-driven system to generate damage estimates from scientific and engineering principles and data, 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. It enables policy-makers and decision-makers to ultimately develop risk reduction strategies and implement mitigation actions". (MAE Center, MAEviz Software, 2006)