Towards a Semantic-based Approach for Modeling Regulatory Documents in Building Industry

Regulations in the Building Industry are becoming increasingly complex and involve more than one technical area. They cover products, components and project implementation. They also play an important role to ensure the quality of a building, and to minimize its environmental impact. In this paper, we are particularly interested in the modeling of the regulatory constraints derived from the Technical Guides issued by CSTB and used to validate Technical Assessments. We first describe our approach for modeling regulatory constraints in the SBVR language, and formalizing them in the SPARQL language. Second, we describe how we model the processes of compliance checking described in the CSTB Technical Guides. Third, we show how we implement these processes to assist industrials in drafting Technical Documents in order to acquire a Technical Assessment; a compliance report is automatically generated to explain the compliance or noncompliance of this Technical Documents

Community description

petersanders2015aThis document constitutes the 3rd revision of Ready4SmartCities’ Community Description onthe plan on how to build a community for the Ready4SmartCities roadmap, vision andoutcome, also in the light of the targeted data interoperability proposals work packages 2, 3and 4 dealt with. It intends to depict the project’s community of communities at the end ofthe project’s lifetime, the different means the project used to get in touch with it and the viewof building a “data community” via semantic web technologies. It recapitulates and criticallyassesses the problems encountered during the execution of the project concerninginteractions and a channel used, and discusses issues arising in the work to fully reach thetargeted audience(s)

Aide à la rédaction de documents réglementaires dans le domaine du bâtiment

National audienceL'industrie du bâtiment connaît actuellement une croissance phénoménale de ses textes techniques et réglementaires. Dans ce contexte, il est urgent et crucial d'aider à la création de nouvelles règlementations et de faciliter leur traitement automatique. Dans cet article, nous présentons une approche ontologique pour modéliser les documents technico-réglementaires dans l'industrie du bâtiment. Nous nous concentrons sur trois volets. Premièrement, nous décrivons notre approche pour la modélisation des guides pratiques émis par le CSTB en règles SBVR basées sur un vocabulaire contrôlé, puis leur formalisation en SPARQL. Deuxièmement, les contraintes réglementaires représentées en SPARQL sont exploitées dans la modélisation de processus de vérification de la conformité d'un document par rapport à la règlementation. Troisièmement, ces processus sont mis en œuvre pour aider à la rédaction d'Avis Techniques émis par le CSTB sur des dossiers techniques soumis par des industriels ; un rapport de conformité est automatiquement généré pour déterminer la conformité ou non-conformité des dossiers techniques et l'expliquer

Towards a Semantic-based Approach for Modeling Regulatory Documents in Building Industry

International audienceRegulations in the Building Industry are becoming increasingly complex and involve more than one technical area. They cover products, components and project implementation. They also play an important role to ensure the quality of a building, and to minimize its environmental impact. In this paper, we are particularly interested in the modeling of the regulatory constraints derived from the Technical Guides issued by CSTB and used to validate Technical Assessments. We first describe our approach for modeling regulatory constraints in the SBVR language, and formalizing them in the SPARQL language. Second, we describe how we model the processes of compliance checking described in the CSTB Technical Guides. Third, we show how we implement these processes to assist industrials in drafting Technical Documents in order to acquire a Technical Assessment; a compliance report is automatically generated to explain the compliance or noncompliance of this Technical Documents

An Ontology for Modelling and Supporting the Process of Authoring Technical Assessments

International audienceIn this paper, we present a semantic web approach for modelling the process of creating new technical and regulatory documents related to the Building sector. This industry, among other industries, is currently experiencing a phenomenal growth in its technical and regulatory texts. Therefore, it is urgent and crucial to improve the process of creating regulations by automating it as much as possible. We focus on the creation of particular technical documents issued by the French Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB), called Technical Assessments, and we propose services based on Semantic Web models and techniques for modelling the process of their creation

Strategy for energy measurement and interoperability

garciacastro2014ano abstrac

Modélisation de documents réglementaires dans le domaine du bâtiment

International audienceThis paper gives an overview of a formal semantics-based approach to support the process of modeling new regulations. We focus on technical advices based on technical guides issued by the French Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB) capturing both regulations and expert knowledge of CSTB experts on how using regulations when producing a technical advice. The knowledge contained in guides is represented into SBVR rules, based on a controlled vocabulary derived from an OWL domain ontology and these rules are implemented into SPARQL queries. The know-how knowledge of CSTB experts is viewed as workflows of SPARQL queries and declaratively represented into RDF annotations. These workflows of queries are executed to assist the expert when producing technical advices by automating the compliance checking of technical documents to regulations

Strategy for energy measurement and interoperability

garciacastro2014ano abstrac

Draft of innovation and research roadmap

sepponen2014ano abstrac

CoMMA Corporate Memory Management through Agents Corporate Memory Management through Agents: The CoMMA project final report

This document is the final report of the CoMMA project. It gives an overview of the different search activities that have been achieved through the project. First, a description of the general requirements is proposed through the definition of two scenarios. Then it shows the different technical aspects of the projects and the solution that has been proposed and implemented