On the Extended Use of Citations in CAAD

This paper discusses the extended use of the Cumulative Index of CAAD  (CUMINCAD) - a digital library set up in 1998 serving the CAAD-community  as an important source of scientific information with over 6.000 recorded  entries published on-line. The aim of this paper is to elaborate a related  Citation Index to CUMINCAD - with over 20.000 references - and to provide  information on entries with an exceptional high impact in the CUMINCAD  database. The importance is determined through its use (citing) in the  framework of afterwards published scientific materials. By utilizing graph  theory methods extensive citation analyses will be presented illustrating the  impact of particular contributions in different research topics. 

The Topics of CAAD. a Machine\u27s Perspective

Ontology of a scientific field typically includes a taxonomy that breaks up the field into several topics. The break-up is present in the organisation of information in books, libraries and on the Web. An on-line database of papers related to CAAD called CUMINCAD was created and it includes over 3000 papers with abstracts. They are available through the search interface - one knows an author or a keyword and can find the papers where such keyword or author's name appears. Alternative interface would be through browsing papers topic by topic. The papers, however, are not categorised. In this paper, we present the efforts to use the machine learning and data mining techniques to automatically group the papers into clusters and create a set of keywords that would label a cluster. The hypothesis was that an algorithm would create clusters of papers automatically and that the clusters would be similar to the groupings a human would have made. We investigated several algorithms for doing an analysis like that but were unable to prove the original hypothesis. We conclude that it requires more than objective statistical analysis of the words in abstracts to create an ontology of CAAD

Digital Proceedings: Experiences regarding Creating and Using

This paper describes the developments of the CUMINCAD database since 1999 when it was first presented and some statistical information, how the service is being used. CUMINCAD started as a bibliographic database storing meta information about CAADrelated publications. Recently, full texts are being added. The process of creation of electronic copies of papers in pdf-format is described as well as decisions which were taken in this context. Over the last two years 20.000 users visited CUMINCAD. We present a brief analysis of their behaviour and interaction patterns. This and the forthcoming possibility of a full-text-search will open up a new perspective for CAAD-research

Web-Based Platforms for Collaborative Submission and Review of Shared Information

The focus of this paper is the implementation of web-based data platforms for CAAD research and education. This review is based on three case studies that use different software environments for the creation of the specified data platforms: eCAADe/FileMakerdatabases, ACADIA/CAMEO-WebObjects environment and SciX/WODA-language

Enabling Secure and Collaborative Document Sharing in BIM Processes

During the lifecycle of construction projects , documents and resources should be shared by partners in a collaborative and secure way. Starting from the Building Information Modelling (BIM) paradigm, we propose the Smart BIM Folder (SBF), a cloud-oriented framework enabling project teams to share construction documents on collaborative nodes, respecting security requirements of documents sharing. The core idea is to consider the SBF as a single, collectively-operated virtual resource accessed via a cloud-based catalogue. The paper proposes mechanisms for document sharing respecting both the typicality of BIM projects and security requirements of stakeholders in such sharing. We discuss cloud architecture issues related to the implementation of the SBF as a cloud service