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Yesterday David Cox sent an outreach to the Conceptual Graphs list seeking demonstrations for FLIPP explainers. I sent him a message and his responses are below: ***********ORIGINAL MESSAGE*************** ....email off line from CG to see if maybe this could be an example of FLIPP: Say you had a dataset like the one attached to use as a template for describing buildings. Furthermore, pretend building types, like a firestation, could be overlaid to further define included/not included materials and the performance requirements of specific buildings. This in itself could be like a FLIPP diagram. The classifications in the attached should be set up where a UniFormat class "is-a" several MasterFormat classes, this is just a sketch or layout to get started. If there were a set of 10 templates, how could FLIPP be used to hit these data structures with questions. For example, in California there is a stalemate over water rights by a certain road, they wish to use GIS and BIM to help explain and solve this problem. The state has developed 92 criteria evaluated through 17 factors. I can imagine 10 templates stacked and transparent so you could see things like, no matter what type of building, they all have concrete. Then when a series of questions comes, they are like 92 arrows, going through a FLIPP explainer of 17 factors, to find answers in the BIM and GIS data. A logical structure could help achieve this. Another set of questions to run through has to do with emergency response. For example, shut down air handler 2. The question would need to find the answer in the specs and drawings to know what type of air handler it is and where it is located. Another set of questions could have to do with education services. This is the effort of the Building Service Performance project with Ontolog. A brainstorming call is here, I think the next call is this Friday. Kimon Onuma of Onuma Planning System and BIMstorm is going to provide 10 sample building models this week. I'm going to meet with a small group of architects here at WDG to evaluate what these buildings could be made of and what their oddity building code requirements might be, define special and typical features, then the BSP is going to try to get the semantic world and physical world to stay connected under certain conditions. Interested? ***************FIRST RESPONSE*********** It will help if you can give me the most likely questions you would expect the diagram to have to answer. I've taken a stab at some questions below -- some probably don't apply. If you don't have time to answer, I will assume some things. Tonight, the following quick questions come to mind for the content of a diagram: 1. a. What specific structures (e.g., buildings, parking lots, etc) are included in the project? b. What materials in what quantities at what cost and delivery schedules will be used (whether purchased or surplus) for each of these or any combination of these structures? c. What wage, salary, overtime, insurance costs are are associated with each structure or combination of structures? d. What is the critical path picture for the project, and where are the start and finish points of each structure? e. Which structures have legal requirements or liabilities associated with them, for example: where the materials are purchased; who will be employed to do the work; what groups are connected with what aspects of the project and who signs off and when? 2. FLIPP diagrams are often most useful for answering "how-to" questions. FLIPP diagrams that everyone on the project finds easy, quick, and comfortable to use would likely be welcome no matter what data bases are finally constructed. One way to do this to ask every group to make a "uniform type" of diagram of their group's function -- not a text writeup. Each group's diagram would have three parts: (a.) inputs they require placed at the top of their diagram; (b.) their group's process steps in the middle of their diagram; (c.) their outputs at the bottom of their diagram -- which outputs become the inputs that other named specific groups on the project. If the diagrams are FLIPP-type, the groups will have an easy, slick way to team up and to see that their "how-tos" are properly connected. This format is a lot easier than reading each others' text descriptions. People may accept these (FLIPP) diagrams by calling them "a simple framework picture of their input-output process" or some other familiar name. :-) ***************SECOND RESPONSE*********** 1. An example of a framework diagram is at http://www.flipp-explainers.org/casestudy1.htm . The users' rule for all frameworks: read top down, don't cross vertical lines. Entire plants have been designed by team members producing and linking many such individual diagrams. Bear in mind that what people usually plot in this way are all the valid traces for system users, not the sequences a computer might follow. 2. A point of emphasis: Action steps can become more useful when individual team members supply more-than-normal detail on what information they will be giving to specific team members, namely, who will do exactly what, by exactly when, to exactly whom, in exactly what form. This obviously minimizes surprises and wrong assumptions. Every one gets what they expect and that is what they really need to produce what they promise to produce. Not profound, but it helps. -- ************************************************* Deborah L. MacPherson Projects Director, Accuracy&Aesthetics Specifier, WDG Architecture PLLC **************************************************
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