Study on the Service-Oriented Model for Civil Engineering Management based on Semantic Web

Civil Engineering Management plays an important role in any project for saving money and utilizing time efficiently. With growing number of methods and tools for civil engineering management, need for an integrated environment to facilitate project planning, execution and control according to project stages seems crucial. Management of changes that happen in various stages of project is another challenge of civil engineering management. In this paper, we propose a semantic web service-oriented model for civil engineering management, aiming to integrate different civil engineering management-related web services and provide flexible project management by using a central decision making component. The proposed model is based on Web Service Modeling Ontology and its execution environment (WSMX), furthermore we use PROMONT as our reference ontology to represent project management domain.