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ONTOLOGY BASED KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: FOCUSED ON THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

  • Kyung-won Lee;Moonseo Park;Hyunsoo Lee;Soonseok Kwon
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.949-955
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    • 2009
  • Managing knowledge effectively is a critical factor for the competitive power of a company. There are efforts to use knowledge as an important resource in many industrial areas and likewise the interest in knowledge management is growing in the construction industry. Nevertheless, there are limitations in the current capture and reuse of knowledge in the construction industry owing to the unique characteristics of the knowledge created during the processes of projects. The knowledge produced during the processes of construction projects is project-oriented, experiential and context specific and due to these characteristics the reuse of knowledge is difficult. In this research, we focus on capturing and identifying the characteristics of construction knowledge and propose a method to apply these characteristics in developing an ontology based construction knowledge retrieval system to improve construction knowledge retrieval and enhance knowledge reuse.

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KEY BARRIERS AND THEIR STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO ACTIVATE KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATIONS

  • Tae-Wan Kim ;Hyoun-Woo Joh
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.403-408
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    • 2005
  • Being in a knowledge-based industry, many construction organizations are seeking to manage their own knowledge in an effective way. To manage knowledge, the organizations must motivate in-house people to share their knowledge. However, some barriers to knowledge sharing do exist and researches on these barriers considering construction organizations' characteristics seem rare. This study aims to identify key barriers to knowledge sharing considering the characteristics of construction organizations. Based on the identification, strategic responses to each key barrier are presented in two perspectives of technical and behavioral approach to activate knowledge sharing.

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Road Map of a Knowledge Management System for the Construction Industry (건설산업의 지식관이체계 로드맵)

  • 정인수;김승균;최원식
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.101-121
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    • 2001
  • MOCT(Ministry of Construction St Transportation) suggested "A Plan for Implementation of Knowledge-based Economy for the Construction Industry" to add high value to a construction industry. by means of knowledge-based management. However, there is no knowledge management system which considers characteristics of a domestic construction industry. So a useful knowledge vanished the moment a company terminated a construction Uoject. Therefore, it is necessary to develop "An application method of a knowledge management system for the construction industry" which takes a real environment into consideration. This study aims to present the road map of a knowledge management system which helps the bodies of the construction industry(government, research center/university, enterprise, etc) to do a knowledge activity efficiently. To accomplish this objective, we analyzed overall knowledge management activities. In addition we suggested an implementation direction and strategy of a knowledge management system for the construction industry. As results of this study, we presented the road map of a knowledge management system for the construction industry, which is composed of policy forum, study forum, professional forum, research forum and knowledge 8t information DB. We expect that results of this study will be used as a basis for implementing the knowledge portal that brings a construction industry to a high value added industry.

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Knowledge Assets Classification in Construction Industry Through Construction Characteristic and Information (건설업 특징과 생성정보를 통한 건설업 지식자산 분류방안)

  • Lee Tai Sik;Lee Jin Uk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.333-336
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    • 2001
  • The future industry, intangible assets, like expertise, customer satisfaction, and employee's volition and capability, create more company value than any other components. The company's outcome mostly depends on managing these intangible knowledge assets. Construction industry is trying to adapt knowledge management system to manage their knowledge assets, but Hey do not build up knowledge assets definition and knowledge assets classification as much as other industries do. Most researches related knowledge assets classification are not concentrated on construction industry so it is need to define knowledge assets and establish knowledge assets classification of construction based on construction characteristics and informations. With this research result, construction knowledge assets classification can be the basis of knowledge asscts evaluation and knowledge map for knowledge management system.

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Framework for a Strategic Knowledge Management for Construction Companies (건설기업의 전략적 지식축적 Framework)

  • Jung Young-Soo;Kang Seung-Hee;Lee Kyoo-Hyun;Choi In-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.157-160
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for strategic construction knowledge management. The variables of proposed framework includes knowledge types, strategic business functions, and engineering data types. The Proposed framework and knowledge action Plan for the construction company will contribute to develop knowledge management system related to engineering capabilities of strategic business functions

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A Study of Knowledge Sharing in Domestic Construction Fields (국내(國內) 건설현장(建設現場)의 지식공유(知識共有)에 대한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Sun-Hee;Shin, Han-Woo;Kang, Kyung-In
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.7 no.2 s.24
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    • pp.107-112
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    • 2007
  • Recently, a lot of domestic construction companies have implemented Knowledge Management System. However, most of the knowledge in the construction fields still cannot written down on papers, and it is just locked in people's heads. The purpose of this study was to analyze the current situation of knowledge sharing in the construction fields. For this research, questionnaires were distributed and the results of this study was as follows; the essential factor of successful knowledge sharing is not introducing a high quality of electronic system but developing culture of knowledge sharing. When positive culture of knowledge sharing is combined with technical infrastructure, knowledge sharing will be actively promoted.

A Study Of Knowledge Evaluation On The Construction Industry (건설산업 지식평가 방안 연구)

  • Jung Bo-Gun;Lee Tai-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.515-518
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    • 2002
  • KM(Knowledge Management) is factor more paradigm of period than survival factor. Stewart, Sveiby etc., a scholar was Present to definition, knowledge classification and measurement method. KMS(Knowledge Management System) was made by scholar theory. But, it is hardly adapt to construction industry. Because it is have property that construction industry have one product, recieve-industry etc. Therefore, we must knowledge classification and measurement method that property of construction industry. So, we can effectively manage to knowledge of construction industry. And, knowledge of construction industry will evaluate according to property. Measure method of construction company will find through benchmarking that measure method of construction company is analyze to case.

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Creating Knowledge from Construction Documents Using Text Mining

  • Shin, Yoonjung;Chi, Seokho
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.37-38
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    • 2015
  • A number of documents containing important and useful knowledge have been generated over time in the construction industry. Such text-based knowledge plays an important role in the construction industry for decision-making and business strategy development by being used as best practice for upcoming projects, delivering lessons learned for better risk management and project control. Thus, practical and usable knowledge creation from construction documents is necessary to improve business efficiency. This study proposes a knowledge creating system from construction documents using text mining and the design comprises three main steps - text mining preprocessing, weight calculation of each term, and visualization. A system prototype was developed as a pilot study of the system design. This study is significant because it validates a knowledge creating system design based on text mining and visualization functionality through the developed system prototype. Automated visualization was found to significantly reduce unnecessary time consumption and energy for processing existing data and reading a range of documents to get to their core, and helped the system to provide an insight into the construction industry.

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WEB-BASED CONSTRUCTION KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PORTAL

  • Youjin Jang;Moonseo Park;Hyun-Soo Lee
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.487-492
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    • 2011
  • As a knowledge-based economy is emerging, knowledge management (KM) is being rapidly disseminated in both academic circles and the business world. Accordingly, how to effectively manage knowledge is vital to the survival and advance of a company, particularly in project-based industries such as construction. For these reasons, construction companies have adopted IT-based Knowledge management systems (KMS), which is the technology platform and infrastructure that an organization employs to support knowledge management. However, many construction companies have spent resources on developing a KMS that only focus on codification. Furthermore, small and medium-sized companies have limited resources to afford extensive investments. This research addresses the problems found in the current KMS and develops a web-based construction knowledge management portal (CKMP). To achieve these objectives, a case study is conducted and requirements for implementing KM are identified. Based on the identified requirements, this paper builds CKMP using Expert Index (EI), blog, ontology based knowledge retrieval, and wikiblog. The most important functionality of CKMP is their fundamentals to synchronize and support KM process. In order to validate the CKMP, a pilot test with actual users is conducted, and the usability of the system is compared with the current systems. This study is relevant to both the construction industry and academia, as it provides a means of enhancing the performance of KM.

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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROCEDURE AND ITS INTRODUCTION PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

  • Ji yun Lee;Young woong Song;Yoon ki Choi
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.1199-1202
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    • 2005
  • Knowledge has been considered one of the important elements that determine our future. Competitive power of an enterprise has also been transformed from labor, capital, and technology-oriented to knowledge-oriented. Current construction environment is experiencing overall decrease of number of construction contracts due to opening of domestic construction market and economic slump, problems on methods of receiving orders/bidding, and change of costumers' attitude, which intensify competition, therefore many companies consider adopting knowledge management to secure their competitive power. However, there are difficulties in adopting knowledge management and increasing the use by establishing management plan, Performance Measurement, and knowledge maintenance system in reality. Therefore, this study is to provide assistance to successful realization of knowledge management by suggesting development plan of knowledge management that enables knowledge management more efficient with certain goals.

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