TY - CHAP A1 - Wasserfuhr, R. A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - Information Management in the Concurrent Design Process N2 - Former achievements for integrated information management have concentrated on interoperability of applications like e.g. CAD, structural analysis or facility management, based on product models introducing additional application independent model layers (core models). In the last years it has become clear, that besides interoperability of autonomous applications, the concurrent processes of model instantiation and evolution have to be modeled, including the relationship to available project resources, persons, legal requirements and communication infrastructure. This paper discusses some basic concepts for an emerging methodology relating the fields of product modeling, project management and workflow systems by elaborating the concept of a process model, which gives a decomposition of the project goals into executable activities. Integrated information management systems should be related to process models to detect pending activities, deadlocks and alternatives of execution. According to the heterogeneous nature of project communication processes, a method for dynamic classification of ad-hoc activities is suggested, that complements predefined highlevel process definitions. In a brief outline of the system architecture, we show how sophisticated information management systems can be broadly made available by using conventional Internet technologies. KW - Informationsmanagement KW - Produktmodell KW - Prozessmodell KW - Prozessmanagement KW - Internet Y1 - 1997 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-4456 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reinhardt, Jan A1 - Garrett, James H. A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - The preliminary design of a wearable computer for supporting Construction Progress Monitoring N2 - Progress monitoring has become more and more important as owners have increasingly demanded shorter times for the delivery of their projects. This trend is even more evident in high technology industries, such as the computer industry and the chemical industry. Fast changing markets, such as the computer industry, force companies to have to build new facilities quickly. To make a statement about construction progress, the status of a building has to be determined and monitored over a period of time. Depicting the construction progress in a diagram over time, statements can be made about the anticipated completion of the project and delays and problems in certain areas. Having this information, measures can be taken to efficiently >catch up< on the schedule of the project. New technologies, such as wearable computers, speech recognition, touch screens and wireless networks could help to move electronic data processing to the construction site. Progress monitoring could very much take advantage of this move, as several intermediate steps of processing progress data can be made unnecessary. The processing of progress data could be entirely done by computers, which means that data for supporting decisions can be made available at the moment the construction progress is measured. This paper describes a project, that investigates how these new technologies can be linked to create a system that enhances the efficiency of progress monitoring. During the project a first prototype of a progress monitoring system was developed that allows construction companies and site supervisors to measure construction progress on site using wearable computers that are speech controlled and connected to a central database via a wireless network. KW - Bauablauf KW - Überwachung KW - Transportables Gerät Y1 - 2000 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-5901 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. A1 - Keller, Martin T1 - Modellbasierte Prozesskoordination für das virtueller Planungsteams N2 - >Virtual Organizations<, >Virtual Enterprises< und >Smart Organizations< werden immer häufiger als zukünftige Geschäftsform für des Bauwesens und insbesondere der Bauplanung gesehen. Ziel dieser Organisationsformen ist es, eine temporäre geschäftliche Zusammenarbeit zur Erschließung neuer Geschäftsfelder aufzubauen, ausgehend von einer strategischen Geschäftsverbindung. Insbesondere für kleine Planungsbüros können sich hieraus Möglichkeiten zur Durchführung größerer Projekte eröffnen, indem notwendige Ressourcen, wie z.B. Fachingenieure, jeder Zeit flexibel integriert werden können. Neben dem Auftreten als Projektmanager besteht für die Planungsbüros auch die Möglichkeit Spezialwissen sowie nicht benötigte Ressourcen in andere Projekte zu integrieren. Ziel ist es dabei, eine kontinuierliche Auslastung der Mitarbeiter sicherzustellen. Durch die Nutzung einer geeigneten und allgemein zugänglichen IT-Infrastruktur über das Internet können neue Partner ohne großen Aufwand in ein Projekt aufgenommen werden indem diesen Zugriffe auf alle notwendigen Projektinformationen gegeben wird. Mit der Bereitstellung passender IT-Werkzeuge für das Projektmanagement, Datenmanagement und Vertragsmanagement wird eine effektive Projektbearbeitung gewährleistet. In diesem Beitrag werden die konzeptionellen Grundlagen virtueller Organisation genauer betrachtet und deren Anwendbarkeit auf virtuelle Planungsteams im Bauwesen untersucht. Anschließend wird, aufbauend auf diese Erkenntnisse, der Aufbau und die Komponenten einer Softwareumgebung zur Unterstützung des virtuellen Planungsteams erörtert. Zum Schluss erfolgt eine Darstellung des durch das BmBF geförderte Projekt iCSS. KW - Bauplanung KW - Virtuelles Unternehmen KW - Teamorganisation KW - Projektmanagement KW - Datenaustausch Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-3599 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Menzel, Karsten A1 - Schach, Reiner A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - Reorganisationspotentiale im Bauwesen durch Nutzung mobiler Informations- & Kommunikationstechnologien N2 - Die Verfügbarkeit und die sichere Beherrschung moderner und kostengünstiger Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien gestattet es auch kleinen unternehmerischen Einheiten im Bauwesen sich in betriebsübergreifenden Netzwerken zu organisieren und sich besser in die Wertschöpfungskette am Bau zu integrieren. In sogenannten >Virtuellen Organisationen< (VO) können diese für die Volkswirtschaft wichtigen Unternehmen ihre Wettbewerbsvorteile wie höhere Flexibilität, schnelle Reaktion auf Kundenwünsche und Marktnähe nutzen und somit ihr langfristiges Bestehen in einem liberalen Wettbewerb auf einem erweiterten EU-Markt sichern und ausbauen. Die derzeit existierenden Hindernisse im Informationsfluss zwischen Baustelle und Büro können durch den Einsatz mobiler, funkvernetzter Endgeräte, wie beispielsweise >Smart-Phones<, und einer neu zu gestaltenden Infrastruktur zum Wissensmanagement und zur kontextsensitiven Informationsdarstellung abgebaut werden. Im Rahmen dieser Veröffentlichung werden konzeptionelle Ansätze eines integrierten Informationsmanagements zur Unterstützung von VO, die im Rahmen des BMBF-Projektes >IuK-System Bau< derzeit entwickelt werden, vorgestellt. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Unternehmen / Organisation KW - Internet Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-3315 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weise, Matthias A1 - Katranuschkov, Peter A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - Generic Services for the Support of Evolving Building Model Data N2 - Many problems related to data integration in AEC can be better tackled by an approach that takes into account the heterogeneity of tasks, models and applications but does not require continuous consistency of the evolving design data, at each data management operation. Such an approach must incorporate adequate services that can facilitate reintegration of concurrently modified data at reasonably selected coordination points. In this paper we present a set of methods which, used in combination, can achieve that goal. After a description of the principal envisaged cooperative work scenario each of these methods is discussed in detail and current observations drawn from their software realisation are given. Whilst the suggested approach is valid for any EXPRESS-based data model, the practical focus of work has been on facilitating IFC-driven integration. KW - Produktmodell KW - Bautechnik KW - Forschungskooperation KW - EXPRESS Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2077 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Katranuschkov, Peter A1 - Gehre, Alexander A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - User Requirements Capture in Distributed Project Environments: A Process-centred Approach N2 - Efforts to define standards for representing AEC/FM data have been fairly successful. However defining a standard reference process model has not met with the same success. Yet almost every conceptual modelling or software development project starts by defining the business processes to be supported and the related requirements to be satisfied. This paper describes a new process-centred methodology for user requirements capture developed in the ICCI project (IST-2001-33022). Its essence is in recognising user requirements and use cases in the context of the real construction process, identifying the actors and roles for each individual activity and associating these activities with information, communication and standardisation requirements on the basis of a formalised specification, named the Process Matrix. In the paper we outline the history of process matrix development, introduce the basic structure of the matrix and show how it can be further extended and refined. We present also a web-based software implementation of the developed approach, describe how it has been used in ICCI and outline further perspectives. KW - Informationstechnik KW - Forschung KW - Europa KW - Bedarfsforschung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2029 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schapke, Sven-Eric A1 - Scherer, Raimar J. T1 - A Four Layer Bayesian Network for Product Model Based Information Mining N2 - Business and engineering knowledge in AEC/FM is captured mainly implicitly in project and corporate document repositories. Even with the increasing integration of model-based systems with project information spaces, a large percentage of the information exchange will further on rely on isolated and rather poorly structured text documents. In this paper we propose an approach enabling the use of product model data as a primary source of engineering knowledge to support information externalisation from relevant construction documents, to provide for domain-specific information retrieval, and to help in re-organising and re-contextualising documents in accordance to the user’s discipline-specific tasks and information needs. Suggested is a retrieval and mining framework combining methods for analysing text documents, filtering product models and reasoning on Bayesian networks to explicitly represent the content of text repositories in personalisable semantic content networks. We describe the proposed basic network that can be realised on short-term using minimal product model information as well as various extensions towards a full-fledged added value integration of document-based and model-based information. KW - Bauwerk KW - Datenmanagement KW - Produktmodell Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1207 ER -