A Federated Approach for Interoperating AEC/FM Ontologies

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias (1) , Ana Roxin (1) , Christophe Nicolle (1)

1 Le2i - Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image [UMR6306]

Over the last few years, the benefits of applying ontologies (semantic graph modelling) for Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry have been recognized by several researchers and industry stakeholders. One of the main motivations is because it eases AEC data manipulation and representation. However, a research question that still remains open is how to take advantage of semantic web technologies to interoperate the AEC/FM and other ontologies in a flexible and dynamical way in order to solve data structure heterogeneity problem. Because of this, we propose in this paper to apply a rule-based federated architecture to answer this research question.

Mots clés: federated architecture; AEC; ifcOWL; Horn-like rules; interoperability; semantic heterogeneity

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Web

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Ana Roxin, Christophe Nicolle. A Federated Approach for Interoperating AEC/FM Ontologies. LDAC2016 - 4th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop , Jun 2016, Madrid, Spain. ⟨hal-01329726⟩