Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) affects occupants' satisfaction, health, productivity,
comfort, and well-being. IoT developments enable better monitoring of IEQ parameters; …

The exchange of construction-related data over the Web via Semantic Web Technologies is
gaining interest in current research. However, most research focuses on non-geometric …

Motivated by the increased use of 3D acquisition of objects by cultural heritage institutions,
we were investigating ontologies and metadata schemes for the acquisition process to …

The Web currently hosts a vast amount of 2D images and 3D building models. Each
repository has its own data structure and a limited set of semantics according to their own …

Because of the growing popularity of 3D modelling, there is a great demand for efficient
mechanisms to automatically process 3D contents. Owing to the lack of semantics, however …

Many efforts have been made in the area of multimedia to bridge the so-called “semantic-
gap” with the implementation of ontologies from 2001 to the present. In this paper, we …

3D models play an important role in a wide range of applications from engineering to
training, from visualization to entertainment. The formal representation of, and reasoning …

The automated processing of 3D models of cultural artifacts can be significantly improved
with formally defined high-level structured descriptors. Despite the large number of …

NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B-Spline) curves and surfaces have been used extensively
in Computer Aided Design (CAD) in the last two decades but not in Finite Element Analysis …

Abstract The Web Ontology Language OWL is a prominent ontology language for specifying
ontologies. Although OWL ontologies are well-used for representing and reasoning about …