Framework for semantic reconciliation of construction project information
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: SUMMARY: The characterization of the AEC domain through the employment of conceptual schemas and standards is challenged with significant problems for exchanging, sharing and integrating information between actors. Semantic gaps or lack of meaning definition at the conceptual and technical level, for example, are prob-lems fundamentally originated through the employment of representations to map the ‘world ’ into models in an endeavor to anticipate other actors ’ views, vocabulary, and even motivations. In this paper, the role of information technologies, actors, and representations is first presented within a frame-work of communication with the purpose of further illustrating the encountered problems in interrelating sour-ces of information. Secondly, interoperability is examined within the context of interrelating sources of informa-tion. This explanation supports the claim that the description of concepts into some form of representation does not guarantee the understanding by other members of the community of what is described. Thirdly, an illustra-tion of semantic reconciliation is presented through an engineering example. An approach to semantically rec-oncile representations is proposed through the study of the internal role of the representations. The research assumption is that if the internal role of a representation is recognized, the treatment of the conveyed semantics can be facilitated, revealing important aspects of the meanings to provide proper understanding during the tran-sition from the source to the interpreter. Particularly, this investigation searches for the fundamental problems
Authors: Iván Mutis, Raja R. A. Issa
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W166496136