IfcOWL: A case of transforming EXPRESS schemas into ontologies

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-101

  Beetz, Jakob ^a   Van Leeuwen, Jos ^a   De Vries, Bauke ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building Information Modeling; Knowledge Representation; Model Driven Architectures; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING; BUILDING MODEL; COLLABORATIVE WORK; DATA MODELING; FORMAL NOTATIONS; INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES - IFC; MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES; MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS; ONTOLOGY WEB LANGUAGE; REASONING ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK; SCHEMAS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS; MODEL BUILDINGS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 68349154149     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: 14691760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060409000122     Document Type: Article

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