New instruments for dynamic building-construction: Computer as partner in construction

New instruments for dynamic building-construction: Computer as partner in construction

van Rees, R.

de Ridder, H.A.J. (promotor)
Saiyildiz, I.S. (promotor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

2007-01-15

For dynamic processes to become possible in Building-Construction, ICT support is needed. Data access and data exchange needs to be ubiquitous. Existing research often only targets elaborate international standards (that don't really get off the ground because of international differences) or it targets big, elaborate, expensive systems (that are only available to the top 1% of the companies). This thesis proposes an open source Building-Construction Ontology Web (bcoWeb) coupled with the so-called REST style of web services. Open source to maximise the possibility of participation and to limit the dependency on organisations or individual companies. Simple REST web interaction to keep the complexity low without sacrificing functionality. An ontology web consisting of multiple independent (national) ontologies to facilitate meaningful information exchange without first needing to build The One Big Ontology (that will never be completed).

ontology
building
construction
web
building processes

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(c) 2007 R. van Rees