Ontologies for knowledge modeling in construction planning : theory and application

• Information

  DESCRIPTION

  149 p. : ill.

  SERIES

  Ricerche. Architettura, pianificazione, paesaggio, design ; 3
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Buildings
  • Special computer methods
  • Building Construction

  NOTE

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149).
  • Nowadays, there is an increasing recognition of the value of knowledge management in the construction projects and ontology-based semantic modelling is seen as an important means of addressing this problem, even if a knowledge-base which maps the construction planning and scheduling domains, in a formal and machine-readable way, is still missing. Addressing this issue, the book is divided in two parts. Part I, theory, is a theoretical introduction of on ontologies concepts and expert systems. Part II, application, presents a research of ontologies development for semantic modelling of construction scheduling, workspace, product and time domains. The last chapter presents the architecture of an ontology-based expert system, to show how ontologies can support automated planning mechanisms. [Publisher's text]