Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Building tightly integrated software development environments: the IPSEN approach
Building tightly integrated software development environments: the IPSEN approach
Thinking with Diagrams in Architectural Design
Artificial Intelligence Review
Knowledge-Based Computer-Aided Architectural Design
Knowledge-Based Computer-Aided Architectural Design
Knowledge-Based Design Systems
Knowledge-Based Design Systems
Formal Concept Analysis on Its Way from Mathematics to Computer Science
ICCS '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces
GraCAD - Graph-Based Tool for Conceptual Design
ICGT '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Graph Transformation
Practical RDF
Graph Transformations for Dynamic Knowledge Processing
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Artificial intelligence in engineering: Personal reflections
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Algorithm and Tool for Ontology Integration Based on Graph Rewriting
Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance
Towards semantic navigation in mobile robotics
Graph transformations and model-driven engineering
Interoperability for the design and construction industry through semantic web technology
SAMT'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Semantic and digital media technologies
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Current CAD tools are not able to support the conceptual design phase, and none of them provides a consistency analysis for sketches produced by architects. This phase is fundamental and crucial for the whole design and construction process of a building. To give architects a better support, we developed a CAD tool for conceptual design and a knowledge specification tool. The knowledge is specific to one class of buildings and it can be reused. Based on a dynamic and domain-specific knowledge ontology, different types of design rules formalize this knowledge in a graph-based form. An expressive visual language provides a user-friendly, human readable representation. Finally, a consistency analysis tool enables conceptual designs to be checked against this formal conceptual knowledge. In this article, we concentrate on the knowledge specification part. For that, we introduce the concepts and usage of a novel visual language and describe its semantics. To demonstrate the usability of our approach, two graph-based visual tools for knowledge specification and conceptual design are explained.