TY - GEN
T1 - Computational Ontology of Urban Design Towards a City Information Model
AU - Montenegro, Nuno C.
AU - Duarte, José P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the City Induction project team members, José N. Beirão and Jorge Gil, as well that of Jorge Rocha on GIS-related topics, which provided insightful discussions and valuable comments in different phases of this research. The City Induction research project is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, hosted by ICIST at the Technical University of Lisbon (PTDC/AUR/64384/2006) and coordinated by José Pinto Duarte. Nuno Montenegro is funded by FCT with grant SFRH/BD/45520/2008.
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PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The ultimate goal of the project in which the described research evolves is a computer-platform for assisting in the development of urban design proposals at the site planning scale including formulation, generation, and evaluation modules. The paper is concerned with the development of a common ontology that guarantees inter-operability among the three modules. After clarifying the theoretical framework, it describes the methodology used to develop the proposed Urban Design Ontology (UDO), as well as its lexicon, syntax, and semantics. It is argued that such ontology constitutes the bases for a City Information Model (CIM) that permits to elaborate consistent and comprehensive descriptions of urban spaces, thereby enabling the formulation of programs for urban interventions and the generation of corresponding design proposals.
AB - The ultimate goal of the project in which the described research evolves is a computer-platform for assisting in the development of urban design proposals at the site planning scale including formulation, generation, and evaluation modules. The paper is concerned with the development of a common ontology that guarantees inter-operability among the three modules. After clarifying the theoretical framework, it describes the methodology used to develop the proposed Urban Design Ontology (UDO), as well as its lexicon, syntax, and semantics. It is argued that such ontology constitutes the bases for a City Information Model (CIM) that permits to elaborate consistent and comprehensive descriptions of urban spaces, thereby enabling the formulation of programs for urban interventions and the generation of corresponding design proposals.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029726241
SN - 9780954118389
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
SP - 253
EP - 260
BT - Computation
A2 - Çagdas, Gülen
A2 - Çolakoglu, Birgül
PB - Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
T2 - 27th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2009
Y2 - 16 September 2009 through 19 September 2009
ER -