Abstract
Custom digital workflows aim to allow diverse, non-integrated design and analysis applications to be custom linked in digital workflows, created by a variety of users, including those who are not expert programmers. With the intention of introducing this in practice, education and research, this paper focuses on critical aspects of overcoming interoperability hurdles, illustrating the use of property graphs for mapping data between AEC software tools that are not connected by common data formats and/or other interoperability measures. A brief exemplar design scenario is presented to illustrate the concepts and methods proposed, and conclusions are then drawn regarding the feasibility of this approach and directions for further research.
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The approach proposed in this research emerged out of discussions at the “Open Systems and Methods for Collaborative BEM (Building Environment Modeling)” workshops held at the CAAD Futures Conference in July 2011 and at the eCAADe Conference in 2013. We would like to thank the participants of these workshops for their contributions. Additionally, we would like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Janssen, P., Stouffs, R., Chaszar, A., Boeykens, S., Toth, B. (2015). Custom Digital Workflows with User-Defined Data Transformations Via Property Graphs. In: Gero, J., Hanna, S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition '14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14956-1_29
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