ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2019
Modeling 3D Spatial Constraints to Support Utility Compliance Checking
Publication: Computing in Civil Engineering 2019: Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation
ABSTRACT
Utility regulatory documents usually stipulate the spatial configurations between utilities and their surroundings. Noncompliance with these spatial configurations will lead to recurrent utility incidents (e.g., pipeline contamination and erosion). Therefore, spatial compliance checking is required before a utility routing design is proposed. A critical step of utility spatial compliance checking is to translate natural language (NL)-based spatial constraints into executable logic rules. This paper presents a generic methodology of modeling NL-based spatial constraints. First, formal spatial knowledge representation is proposed. Then spatial cognitive-linguistic information is extracted using the natural language processing (NLP) algorithm and formalized into spatial knowledge. Finally, deontic logic (DL) is used to capture the information regarding normative modalities and hierarchical structures prescribed in spatial constraints. The performance of the NLP algorithm is evaluated and a framework of implementing DL-based spatial constraints in a spatial database is presented in this paper.
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Computing in Civil Engineering 2019: Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation
Pages: 439 - 446
Editors: Yong K. Cho, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Fernanda Leite, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Amir Behzadan, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, and Chao Wang, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8242-1
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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jun 13, 2019
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