Over the last two decades, there has a substantial body of research concerned with a more
integrated use of IT in the design process in the construction industry and broader …

Informatics in materials science and engineering is playing more and more important role in
contemporary society. Intelligent applications such as new materials discovery, materials …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been extensively used to ensure the
operational safety of long-span bridges. Large-scale bridge structural response and loading …

In the field of geographic information science, modeling geographic dynamics based on
spatiotemporal information extracted from the Web, especially unconstructed data such as …

Ontology matching is an integral part for establishing semantic interoperability. One of the
main challenges within the ontology matching operation is semantic heterogeneity, ie …

Abstract Nowadays, Big Data management has become a key basis for innovation,
productivity growth, and competition. The correlated exploitation of data of this magnitude …

Abstract Systems and methods (eg, utilities) for use in providing automated data quality
detection that can be used multiple times across various domains and across multiple data …

Information is produced and maintained in a building project in a concurrent and loosely
coupled manner by a set of parties representing different disciplines. The multiple partial …

We consider the problem of enabling interoperability and information sharing among
geospatial applications that use ontologies to describe their concepts and the relationships …