TY - GEN
T1 - A web service-based framework for an online 3D model viewer
AU - Elyamany, Hany F.
AU - Elawady, Mohamed E.
AU - Abdelhay, Emad E.
AU - Khalil, Ahmed I.
PY - 2012/9/12
Y1 - 2012/9/12
N2 - Building Information Model (BIM) is an IT methodology to construct a facility virtually in details. The digital format representation is essential to facilitate information sharing and exchange among multiple contractors. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is utilized to embed the shared data in an XML standard structure to improve the interoperability among all interrelated participants within the facility construction process. Web Service (WS) is an XML component which encapsulates and transfers a business process and its contiguous data safely, concurrently, and less-cost among several sides through accessing the web. In this paper, a web service-based framework is introduced to enhance the performance of IFC elements exchange and accessibility through the web. The framework employs multiple web service replicas in order to obtain a fast real-time 3D view. Each individual service replica retrieves a specific section of the IFCs information from the DB backend and draws its corresponding object. Experimental evaluation shows that the framework effectively enhances the time required to sketch the overall 3D view for the participant.
AB - Building Information Model (BIM) is an IT methodology to construct a facility virtually in details. The digital format representation is essential to facilitate information sharing and exchange among multiple contractors. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is utilized to embed the shared data in an XML standard structure to improve the interoperability among all interrelated participants within the facility construction process. Web Service (WS) is an XML component which encapsulates and transfers a business process and its contiguous data safely, concurrently, and less-cost among several sides through accessing the web. In this paper, a web service-based framework is introduced to enhance the performance of IFC elements exchange and accessibility through the web. The framework employs multiple web service replicas in order to obtain a fast real-time 3D view. Each individual service replica retrieves a specific section of the IFCs information from the DB backend and draws its corresponding object. Experimental evaluation shows that the framework effectively enhances the time required to sketch the overall 3D view for the participant.
KW - building information systems
KW - performance and scalability
KW - web services and systems
KW - databases
KW - civil engineering computing
KW - information retrieval
KW - open systems
KW - -software performance evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84872590052&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution book
AN - SCOPUS:84872590052
SN - 9781467307086
T3 - 2012 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2012
SP - 1405
EP - 1410
BT - 2012 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2012
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2012 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2012
Y2 - 9 September 2012 through 12 September 2012
ER -