The advent of social computing on the Web has led to a new generation of Web applications
that are powerful and world-changing. However, we argue that we are just at the beginning …

Expressing machine-interpretable statements in the form of subject-predicate-object triples
is a well-established practice for capturing semantics of structured data. However, the …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

Today's construction industry relies heavily on high-performing building information
modelling (BIM) systems. By deploying the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as a …

Web science Page 1 60 communications of the acm | JULY 2008 | voL. 51 | no. 7 DESPITE THE
WEB’S great success as a technology and the significant amount of computing infrastructure …

In this article, we propose an access control mechanism for Web-based social networks,
which adopts a rule-based approach for specifying access policies on the resources owned …

Regulations play an important role in assuring the construction quality. However, due to the
large amount of regulation needs considered, the construction quality compliance checking …

There have been two parallel themes in access control research in recent years. On the one
hand there are efforts to develop new access control models to meet the policy needs of real …

In the construction sector, complex constraints are not usually modeled in conventional
scheduling and 4D building information modeling software, as they are highly dynamic and …

With the fast growth of web, the web is full of diverse data. Linked Data is data on the web
that gives URIs to entities and links different data from different domains together, which …