Twelve Design Patterns for Integrating and Normalizing Product Model Schemas

  1. Ghang Lee1,*,
  2. Charles M. Eastman2,
  3. Rafael Sacks3

Article first published online: 2 FEB 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2007.00475.x

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Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 163–181, April 2007

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Lee, G., Eastman, C. M. and Sacks, R. (2007), Twelve Design Patterns for Integrating and Normalizing Product Model Schemas. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 22: 163–181. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2007.00475.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

  2. 2

    College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  3. 3

    Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

* *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: glee@yonsei.ac.kr.

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Abstract: This article reviews a method for generating a product model from user data and introduces 12 design patterns for resolving conflicts that may occur in the integration and normalization process. The generating method and design patterns were evaluated during a project to integrate the product models collected from three different precast concrete companies in the United States, testing the new method of product model generation. The application results indicate that the 12 design patterns are effective and sufficient for resolving most known schema conflicts and for integrating and normalizing multiple product models into a single well-formed product model.

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