Facilitating distributed collaboration in the AEC/FM sector using Semantic Web Technologies
Jakob Beetz · TU/e Research Portal · 2009
The questions that are addressed by the research conducted during this PhD project are: How can we automate the very process of information exchange and integration among heterogeneous information sources?How can we maintain a variety of domain sub-models in a distributed, heterogeneous and yet consistent environment?How can we capture the knowledge necessary for meaningful automatized operations on domain-specic information in a machine-readable way?How can we minimize the development work of integrating existing methods and legacy applications and their internal models and tools into the planning process for buildings?1.4 Hypotheses 1.The distribution, manipulation, and maintenance of building product models can be facilitated and enhanced by applying methods from