Improving the integration between BIMs and Agent-Based Simulations. The Swarm Building Modeling – SBM

The disruptive factor of the current industrial sectors is the constant spreading of ICT technology into produc-tion cycles. Following this trend, several companies improved their productive factors towards the optimiza-tion of processes through the digitalization of themselves, also thanks to public and private funds. In the A/B/C sector industry instead, the gap is to face with the traditional design habit to design and building with usual codes, neglecting the use of advanced tools capable not only to automatize representation and computa-tion, but support designers in creative ideas and design optimizations. For these issues, traditional BIM tools are inadequate lacking semantic, reasoning capability and a full dynamic intertwined consequences of design choices. So, a general model of interaction and integration between Building Information Modeling and Agent-Based Modeling is proposed. This model works following the spirit of swarms, in the meaning that every entity of the swarm (i.e. components, procedures context etc.) are linked with others in making different actions aimed at reaching their own goals reach the same result, maintaining a hierarchical order and pursuing a global balance, like is for the building objects in a coherent project.