Information Modeling in the Time of the Revolution

J Mylopoulos - Information systems, 1998 - Elsevier
Information modeling is concerned with the construction of computer-based symbol
structures which capture the meaning of information and organize it in ways that make it …

Integrating building information modeling (BIM) and LEED system at the conceptual design stage of sustainable buildings

F Jalaei, A Jrade - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2015 - Elsevier
Designing environmentally friendly buildings that provide both high performance and cost
savings is of increasing interest in the development of sustainable cities. Today, we are …

Life cycle environmental impact assessment to manage and optimize construction waste using Building Information Modeling (BIM)

F Jalaei, M Zoghi, A Khoshand - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The construction industry has become more interested in moving towards implementing an
innovative method to reduce wastes and Environmental Impacts (EIs) during the …

Theoretical foundations for conceptual modelling in information systems development

Y Wand, DE Monarchi, J Parsons, CC Woo - Decision support systems, 1995 - Elsevier
Conceptual modelling in information systems development is the creation of an enterprise
model for the purpose of designing the information system. It is an important aspect of …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating building information modeling (BIM) and energy analysis tools with green building certification system to conceptually design sustainable buildings.

F Jalaei, A Jrade - J. Inf. Technol. Constr., 2014 - Citeseer
It is commonly known that the energy consumption of buildings is quite high; therefore,
owners, architects, and engineers should be more concerned about the sustainability and …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating decision support system (DSS) and building information modeling (BIM) to optimize the selection of sustainable building components

F Jalaei, A Jrade, M Nassiri - Journal of Information Technology in …, 2015 - researchgate.net
One of the challenges in sustainability analysis and its development is the optimum
selection of sustainable materials to meet the project's requirements while doing sustainable …

An automated BIM model to conceptually design, analyze, simulate, and assess sustainable building projects

F Jalaei, A Jrade - Journal of Construction Engineering, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the environmental impacts and simulating the energy consumption of building's
components at the conceptual design stage are very helpful for designers needing to make …

Conceptual modelling for configuration: A description logic-based approach

DL McGuinness, JR Wright - Ai Edam, 1998 - cambridge.org
Representing objects and their interactions can be quite challenging when an application
requires many complicated, interconnected objects that are restricted in how they can be …

Omnibase: Uniform access to heterogeneous data for question answering

B Katz, S Felshin, D Yuret, A Ibrahim, J Lin… - … on Application of …, 2002 - Springer
Abstract Although the World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information, the
lack of uniform structure makes finding the right knowledge difficult. A solution is to turn the …

Automated question answering using question templates that cover the conceptual model of the database

E Sneiders - Natural Language Processing and Information Systems …, 2002 - Springer
The question-answering system developed by this research matches one-sentence-long
user questions to a number of question templates that cover the conceptual model of the …