Implementation of a BIM Domain-specific Language for the Building Environment Rule and Analysis

Lee, Jin-Kook; Eastman, Charles M.; Lee, Yong-Cheol

doi:10.1007/s10846-014-0117-7

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“…The TAS is composed of ALU level of semantic combination that represented by the single rule unit. As the logical relation generated in (2) sentences, logic node is necessary for semantically connect the rule units. th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2017) IF (CS1 OR CS2) THEN (KS1 AND KS2) (2)…”

Section: Logic Nodementioning

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“…Because of the complicate logical statement and conditional relationship, rule node bound as nesting box is necessary for brief node combination. Rule node R is defined by (2). N is the set of node composing rule node R and C is the set of connection between N composing R. …”

Section: Rule Nodementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The introduction of BIM (Building Information Modeling) enables those manual process to be automatized by computer-based 3D and information modeling. Especially in the field of evaluating building related regulation based on BIM model, establishing logic for translating natural language sentences into the computer-readable format became the forefront of the assessment [1,2]. Especially, the Korea Building Act has multiple clauses and phrases with intricate relations such as upper-lower, reference, and commission [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Visual Language-based approach for the Definition of Building Permit Related Rules

Kim¹,

Lee²,

Shin³

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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-This paper aims to describe the visual languagebased approach to define building permit related rules in the much intuitive way and support high applicability. The advent of BIM (Building Information Modeling) enables an automatic rulechecking process in the early phase of design by translation and interpretation of regulation about building design assessment. For the precise rulechecking process, a logic rule-based mechanism for translating is needed as prerequisite step and the rule-making process have to be proceeded based on this mechanism. Accordingly, Korea government also proceeding the KBim project for employing BIM to adapt automatic approach to the overall process of building permission system. As the part of the project, KBimLogic offers logic rule-based mechanism which in charge of rule-making by translating natural language regulation sentences in Korea Building Act into the computer-readable form-KBimCode. This paper introduces the KBim Visual Language (KBVL), the extended way of composing the rule module of building related regulations by the visual elements for the intuitive and immediate identifying the process and result of rule-making. The language supports user to combine visual symbols and their connection according to the user-defined nesting relation and generate KBimCode automatically at the background of the visual language. Thus, intuitive composing shorten the time of generating rule modules and defining the logical relation between the modules. As the result, the user can handily query the components of KBimCode and define relation of them to compose tailored ruleset for their own rule-checking process with various type of software.

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Section: Logic Nodementioning

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Section: Rule Nodementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Visual Language-based approach for the Definition of Building Permit Related Rules

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“…The application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in AEC industries has led to supporting computerinterpretable building models and it enables automated design assessment so that it becomes to reduce an error and improve design quality continuously [2,3]. Among various tasks of the automated design assessment process, this paper focuses on an approach and a mechanism to generate computer-readable explicit forms from implicit natural language sentences especially in Building Act of Korea for acquiring building permits.…”

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An Approach to Translate Korea Building Act into Computer-Readable Form for Automated Design Assessment

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Lee²,

Park³

et al. 2015

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This paper aims to describe an approach of implementation for an interpreter that translates the human natural language into a computer-readable form. Selected building permit-related sentences in Korea Building Act are within the scope of this paper. Among the various applications of BIM, the benefit of automated design assessment has been reported by some leading BIM challengers. The related regulations are usually defined in design guidelines, RFPs, Building Code, etc. The regulations are written in human-readable languages, and sometimes their implicit definitions hinder translating into the explicitly defined computer-readable forms. This paper focuses on the development of a translation process of converting Korea Building Act sentences into specific computer-readable forms such as a midlevel pseudo code and BERA (Building Environment Rule and Analysis) language. The scope of the research process and the overview of the approach to the translation from natural language sentences as follows; 1) Classification of the building objects and related properties from Korea Building Act sentences, 2) Classification of methods from predicate in sentences, 3) Parsing natural language sentence within logic rule-based process. In an actual implementation stage, this translation will be demonstrated by an actual GUI-based application.

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“…To analyze the building circulation by manual used to be time-consuming and error-prone, therefore an automated and reliable way of such analysis has been strongly required. For evaluating circulation paths in automation using BIM models [3], we need an abstraction of circulation paths on top of the given BIM models to represent, calculate, and analyze topological network of building circulation, and it is the UCN (Universal Circulation Network) [4,5,6,7]. UCN [7] uses graph representation and implemented effective algorithm for circulation analysis.…”

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Graph-based Representation of Building Circulation With the Most-Remote Points and Virtual Space Objects

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Lee²,

Shin³

et al. 2014

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This research aims to develop a graph-based representation of building circulation as an extended version of the metric graph structure named UCN (Universal Circulation Network). There are several different methods and algorithms to represent pedestrians' indoor circulation for architectural purposes. The UCN has introduced a BIM-enabled approach to measure walking distances between different space objects using door-to-door connection network. In this paper, we focus on the extended development of the metric graph algorithm to expand its use scenarios such as measuring the exact distance of fire egress. There are two major issues we have encountered in this research and development: 1) finding the most-remote point in a given space objects to measure the distance of fire egress and 2) handling virtually subdivided space objects. This paper describes specific algorithms to resolve this problem on top of the structure of UCN. The major outcome of this development is the extended metric graph structure with the virtual space objects and the most-remote point. The implementation and demonstration depicted in this paper will show how the UCN structure can be enhanced in terms of its capability for visual representation as well as its extensibility of circulation-related analysis.

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Implementation of a BIM Domain-specific Language for the Building Environment Rule and Analysis

Cited by 56 publications

References 6 publications

Visual Language-based approach for the Definition of Building Permit Related Rules

Visual Language-based approach for the Definition of Building Permit Related Rules

An Approach to Translate Korea Building Act into Computer-Readable Form for Automated Design Assessment

Graph-based Representation of Building Circulation With the Most-Remote Points and Virtual Space Objects

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