Past, present and future of information and knowledge sharing in the construction industry: Towards semantic service-based e-construction?

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 502-515

  Rezgui, Yacine ^a   Boddy, Stefan ^b   Wetherill, Matthew ^b   Cooper, Grahame ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BIM; CAD; e Process; IFC; Ontology; Product data technology; STEP (ISO 10303); Web service

Indexed keywords

BIM; CAD; E-PROCESS; IFC; PRODUCT DATA TECHNOLOGY; STEP (ISO 10303);

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79953733556     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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