Data exchange and management methods are of paramount importance in areas as complex as the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industries and Facility Management. For example, Big Open BIM requires seamless information flow among an arbitrary number of applications. The backbone of such information flow is a robust integration, whose tasks include overcoming technological as well as semantic and pragmatic gaps and conflicts both within and between data models. In this work, we introduce a method for integrating the pragmatics at design-time and the semantics of independent applications at run-time into so-called “integration facades”. We utilize Model-driven Engineering for the automatic discovery of functionalities and data models, and for finding a user-guided consensus. We present a case study involving the domains of architecture, building physics and structural engineering for evaluating our approach in object-oriented as well as data-oriented programming environments. The results produce, for each scenario, a single integration facade that acts as a single source of truth in the data exchange process.

数据交换和管理方法在诸如建筑，工程和建筑行业以及设施管理等复杂领域至关重要。例如，Big Open BIM需要任意数量的应用程序之间的无缝信息流。此类信息流的基础是强大的集成，其任务包括克服技术以及数据模型内部和数据模型之间的语义和实用差距以及冲突。在这项工作中，我们介绍了一种在设计时将语用学和运行时将独立应用程序的语义集成到所谓的“集成外观”中的方法。我们利用模型驱动的工程技术来自动发现功能和数据模型，并找到用户指导的共识。我们提供了一个涉及建筑领域的案例研究，建筑物理和结构工程，以评估我们在面向对象和面向数据的编程环境中的方法。对于每种情况，结果都将产生一个单一的集成外观，该集成外观在数据交换过程中充当单个事实来源。