Ontology-based feature modeling for construction information extraction from a building information model

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 555-569

  Nepal, Madhav Prasad ^a   Staub French, Sheryl ^b   Pottinger, Rachel ^b   Zhang, Jiemin ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Building design; Building information modeling (BIM); Construction management; Design features; Feature based model; Information extraction; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BUILDING DESIGN; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; DESIGN FEATURES; FEATURE-BASED MODEL; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; ONTOLOGY'S; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84882412607     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000230     Document Type: Article

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