TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Retkowitz, Daniel
T1  - Graph Transformations for Dynamic Knowledge Processing
N2  - In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006. HICSS '06 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.200 The conceptual design phase at the beginning of the building construction process is not adequately supported by any CAD-tool. Conceptual design support needs regarding two aspects: first, the architect must be able to develop conceptual sketches that provide abstraction from constructive details. Second, conceptually relevant knowledge should be available to check these conceptual sketches. The paper deals with knowledge to formalize for conceptual design. To enable domain experts formalizing knowledge, a graph-based specification is presented that allows the development of a domain ontology and design rules specific for one class of buildings at runtime. The provided tool support illustrates the introduced concepts and demonstrates the consistency analysis between knowledge and conceptual design.
KW  - CAD
KW  - CAD
KW  - Bauingenieurwesen
KW  - CAD
KW  - civil engineering
Y1  - 2006
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Meyer, Oliver
A1  - Nagl, Manfred
T1  - Graph technology support for conceptual design in civil engineering
N2  - In: Advances in intelligent computing in engineering : proceedings of the 9.International EG-ICE Workshop ; Darmstadt, (01 - 03 August) 2002 / Martina Schnellenbach-Held ... (eds.) . - Düsseldorf: VDI-Verl., 2002 .- Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Reihe 4, Bauingenieurwesen ; 180 ; S. 1-35 The paper describes a novel way to support conceptual design in civil engineering. The designer uses semantical tools guaranteeing certain internal structures of the design result but also the fulfillment of various constraints. Two different approaches and corresponding tools are discussed: (a) Visually specified tools with automatic code generation to determine a design structure as well as fixing various constraints a design has to obey. These tools are also valuable for design knowledge specialist. (b) Extensions of existing CAD tools to provide semantical knowledge to be used by an architect. It is sketched how these different tools can be combined in the future. The main part of the paper discusses the concepts and realization of two prototypes following the two above approaches. The paper especially discusses that specific graphs and the specification of their structure are useful for both tool realization projects.
KW  - CAD
KW  - CAD ;
KW  - CAD
KW  - civil engineering
Y1  - 2002
SN  - 3-18-318004-9
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
T1  - Conceptual design tools for civil engineering
N2  - Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004, Volume 3062/2004, 434-439, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25959-6_33 This paper gives a brief overview of the tools we have developed to support conceptual design in civil engineering. Based on the UPGRADE framework, two applications, one for the knowledge engineer and another for architects allow to store domain specific knowledge and to use this knowledge during conceptual design. Consistency analyses check the design against the defined knowledge and inform the architect if rules are violated.
KW  - CAD
KW  - CAD
KW  - Bauingenieurwesen
KW  - CAD
KW  - civil engineering
Y1  - 2004
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
T1  - Conceptual design mit ArchiCAD 8 : Forschungsprojekt an der RWTH Aachen
N2  - Projektbericht in GraphisoftNews - Architektur und Bauen in einer vernetzten Welt 3/2003 4 Seiten
KW  - CAD
KW  - CAD
KW  - Bauingenieurwesen
KW  - Architektur
KW  - CAD
KW  - civil engineering
KW  - architecture
Y1  - 2003
ER  -