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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN
Edited by: B. Kumar, I.A. MacLeod, A. Retik
Paper VI.3

Modelling the Dynamic and Life Cycle Aspects of the Construction Process: Available Formalisms and On-Going Works

A.-M. Dubois* and A.-F. Cutting-Decelle#

*CSTB, France
#University of Savoie, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.-M. Dubois, A.-F. Cutting-Decelle, "Modelling the Dynamic and Life Cycle Aspects of the Construction Process: Available Formalisms and On-Going Works", in B. Kumar, I.A. MacLeod, A. Retik, (Editors), "Information Technology in Civil and Structural Engineering Design", Inverleith Spottiswoode, Edinburgh, UK, pp 87-92, 1996.
Abstract
Many research address the modelling of the Construction Industry, either at the data level or at the process level, and with different objectives and different approaches. This paper focus on the need for the modelling of the dynamic aspects of the Construction process. It introduces some of the available methods with their advantages and specificities and it gives some lines of the adaptation of the Petri nets which has been used in the Combine project. An attempt is made to compare these methods against the modelling needs and the determinism level of the resulting models so as to help to use the right formalism for the specific task.

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