Research Article

Ontology-Based Representations of User Activity and Flexible Space Information: Towards an Automated Space-Use Analysis in Buildings

Table 3

Cases for validation of the ontologies.

Case idBuilding typeNumber of activitiesNumber of nonflexible spacesNumber of flexible space included

1Office521 (with two subunits)1
2Office531 (with two subunits)1
3Institutional531 (with four subunits)2
4Institutional521 (with six subunits)1

Note.1A flexible space whose head subunit does not share a movable component with the tail subunit. 2A flexible space whose head subunit shares a movable component with the tail subunit.