Towards an Ontology-enabled Approach for Modeling the Process of Conformity Checking in Construction.
Anastasiya Yurchyshyna, Catherine Faron Zucker, Nhan Le Thanh, Alain Zarli · 2008
Abstract. This paper presents an ontological method aimed at semi-automatic checking the conformity of a construction project represented by RDF graph against a set of construction norms formalized as SPARQL queries. The reasoning is modeled by the matching of RDF representations of construction projects to SPARQL conformity queries. We integrate meta-knowledge relative to the checking process by annotating the conformity queries themselves and organize them according to their annotations. The queries annotations also help to guide the information/knowledge extraction and reasoning process and explain the results of the validation process, especially in case of failure.