A feature ontology to support construction cost estimating

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-154

  Staub French, Sheryl ^a   Fischer, Martin ^b,c   Kunz, John ^c   Ishii, Kos ^c   Paulson, Boyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based cost estimating; Building construction; Computer integrated design and construction; Cost driving product features; Formal ontologies; Product and process modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ACTIVITY-BASED COST ESTIMATING; FEATURE ONTOLOGY;

COSTS;

EID: 0345356232     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060403172034     Document Type: Article

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