Building ontology to support reasoning in early design

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 151-158

  Kim, H ^a   Grobler, F ^a  

^a US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC REASONING; BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL - BIM; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DESIGN PROCESS; EARLY DESIGNS; INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES - IFC; ISO STANDARDS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN;

BUILDINGS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; RESEARCH; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 70350174705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40937(261)19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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