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A framework for managing information from heterogeneous, distributed, and autonomous sources in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management domain Kosovac, Branka
Abstract
This dissertation proposes a framework that allows different efforts aiming to enhance information management in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management (AEC/FM) industries, to coexist and support each other by sharing resources, services, and outputs. The main motivation for this research was the lack of support for non-routine tasks and business agility in information systems serving the domain. An extensive analysis of Information needs and available solutions identified the domain heterogeneity and complexity as key challenges for successful information management and efficient communication between a wide range of human and machine participants as a missing link. Suggesting that such communication needs to involve all components of human-to-human communication: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the existing information-management resources and approaches were analyzed within the semiotic framework, in order to identify shared simple elements that can be used to relate them. The proposed framework identifies three basic types of assertions: senses, relationships, and information, and their two properties: category and scope, as a set of basic elements that can be used to relate all kinds of semantic resources as well as information-management approaches based on linguistics, information-retrieval theory and practice, document structure, and knowledge representation. The framework enables consistent management of different types of information at any level of granularity and correlation of assertions involving information, its subject- and context-domains. A pilot implementation demonstrated on a small scale how the proposed framework can be used in practice. The envisioned system consists of numerous and diverse components that share their content via Web services using the proposed framework and a set of shared resources that include registries and specialized services offering senses (i.e. terminology mapping and resolution) and relationships (i.e. conceptualizations). The research uses a combination of constructive and exploratory method. The basic framework was validated by the ability to express all types of semantic resources and the pilot implementation by the comparison to a set of predefined requirements. However, the real benefits of the proposed framework can be proven only when it is used in combination with a variety of existing, emerging, and future techniques in complex real-world environments, as intended.
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A framework for managing information from heterogeneous, distributed, and autonomous sources in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management domain
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University of British Columbia
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2007
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This dissertation proposes a framework that allows different efforts aiming to
enhance information management in the architecture, engineering, construction, and
facilities management (AEC/FM) industries, to coexist and support each other by sharing
resources, services, and outputs.
The main motivation for this research was the lack of support for non-routine tasks
and business agility in information systems serving the domain. An extensive analysis
of Information needs and available solutions identified the domain heterogeneity and
complexity as key challenges for successful information management and efficient
communication between a wide range of human and machine participants as a missing
link. Suggesting that such communication needs to involve all components of human-to-human
communication: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the existing information-management
resources and approaches were analyzed within the semiotic framework, in
order to identify shared simple elements that can be used to relate them.
The proposed framework identifies three basic types of assertions: senses,
relationships, and information, and their two properties: category and scope, as a set of
basic elements that can be used to relate all kinds of semantic resources as well as
information-management approaches based on linguistics, information-retrieval theory
and practice, document structure, and knowledge representation. The framework
enables consistent management of different types of information at any level of
granularity and correlation of assertions involving information, its subject- and context-domains.
A pilot implementation demonstrated on a small scale how the proposed
framework can be used in practice. The envisioned system consists of numerous and
diverse components that share their content via Web services using the proposed
framework and a set of shared resources that include registries and specialized services
offering senses (i.e. terminology mapping and resolution) and relationships (i.e.
conceptualizations).
The research uses a combination of constructive and exploratory method. The basic
framework was validated by the ability to express all types of semantic resources and
the pilot implementation by the comparison to a set of predefined requirements.
However, the real benefits of the proposed framework can be proven only when it is
used in combination with a variety of existing, emerging, and future techniques in
complex real-world environments, as intended.
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eng
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2011-01-27
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0063270
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University of British Columbia
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Graduate
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