Building Product Models: Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction
Building Product Models: Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction
Business Process Engineering
Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices
Virtual Organizations: Systems and Practices
Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
Ifcowl: A case of transforming express schemas into ontologies
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Composition of engineering web services with distributed data-flows and computations
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Knowledge-based schedule generation and evaluation
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Formal Description of a Generic Multi-Model
WETICE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
From data to model consistency in shared engineering environments
EG-ICE'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture
Process-based simulation library for construction project planning
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Construction process simulation in bridge building based on significant day-to-day data
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Advances and challenges in computing in civil and building engineering
Advanced Engineering Informatics
New visual languages supporting design of multi-storey buildings
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Construction processes configuration using process patterns
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Querying a building information model for construction-specific spatial information
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Intelligent BIM-based construction scheduling using discrete event simulation
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Process-based simulation library for construction project planning
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Knowledge-based navigation system for building health diagnosis
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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The conceptual development of a Management Information System to support decision making on construction projects across all management levels within the owner and the contractor organizations is introduced. The system is designed as a distributed information and service platform. The backbone of the system is a layered ontology framework. Along with the information system, a novel approach to process and multi-model driven construction management is developed that allows for sharing distributed, yet interrelated, engineering and management application models in so called multi-models. A major challenge of the system is the management of the information and model logistics as well as the interdependencies among the application models. In order to support the retrieval of information from different project phases, domains and organizations and their combination in coherent multi-models, an ontology framework is developed. It defines the overall information space of the application models describing the application models content and their links in multi-models as well as the collaboration processes within the virtual organization of the project. The proposed system represents a paradigm shift. The information space is no longer product-model-centric. Central to the model-based information space is the process model that interrelates application model views contained in multi-models required for specific planning, production and analysis tasks. The activities are considered the enabler to semi-automatically combine dedicated information pieces of existing application models in new multi-models. Therefore we have identified the instantiation of activities and their combination to valid process chains to be the bottleneck to make the process and multi-model driven construction management efficient. As a consequence, we develop a new process and multi-model generation method, which is based on process modules formalized in description logics. The process modules combine distinct methods of Reference Process Modelling and Business Process Objects. In the generated processes, related application models, and populated multi-models are hierarchically structured (1) to support the utilization of project information by different actors of the hierarchical project organization and (2) to handle engineering and management knowledge and decisions piecewise during process generation in accordance to the hierarchy levels of the involved decision makers, thereby reducing the overall complexity of decision making. The paper discusses: (1) the main components of the system for interlinking and sharing models and information, (2) the ontology-based multi-model framework and the basics for the hierarchical structuring of the models, and (3) the generation of integrated process models.