ABSTRACT
Planning processes in civil engineering are characterized by a great number of participants and a high amount of planning information stored in distributed and heterogeneous partial models. A main goal of the presented project is to provide the engineers with an integrated view on the relevant technical planning information. To realise this integration two aspects have to be considered: access level integration and semantic level integration. For the integration of partial models on the access level, different approaches like Web Services and mobile agents were developed and have been used in the last several years. However, in this context the core problem is the implicit and frequently inconsistent semantics of the information. Thus, this paper focuses on the interoperability on the semantic level. To provide the fire protection engineer with an integrated transparent view on the model data, a fire protection ontology has to be developed and the mappings between the ontology and the different database schemas have to be implemented. Following this approach the integration effort can be reduced effectively and resources can be integrated flexibly into the network based project organization.
