An ontology-based approach for formalisation and semantic organisation of conformance requirements in construction

Automation in Construction

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1084-1098

  Yurchyshyna, Anastasiya ^a,b   Zarli, Alain ^a  

^a CSTB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Formalisation of conformance requirements; Ontological approach for conformance checking; Semantic annotation and organisation of building codes

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ,; CONFORMANCE CHECKING; CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONTEXT-BASED; FORMALISATION; FORMALISATION OF CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; GENERIC MODELS; KEY COMPONENT; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR CONFORMANCE CHECKING; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SEMANTIC ANNOTATION AND ORGANISATION OF BUILDING CODES; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC SEARCH;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MODEL CHECKING; ONTOLOGY; RESEARCH; SCHEDULING; SEMANTICS;

BUILDING CODES;

EID: 70349424709     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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