Ontology-Driven Information and Knowledge Acquisition from Traditional Dwelling in Kumandong

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the components of traditional dwellings, to interpret their meaning and to systematize them. Systematizing Information is one of the commonly used techniques to extract important pieces of information, and among them, we will focus on the recommender system for the Kumandong traditional building district by taking the traditional dwellings’ components as an example. When describing the components of the dwellings in the traditional building district it is based on sensibility evaluation and rough set theory. The sensibility evaluation test on the dwelling of traditional building district was done by making use of dwelling knowledge sheets. With the proposed method, it is possible to obtain a combination of several contributory components considered as Reducts, Covering Index and Column Score. Moreover, the idea of personalized data structure with an Ontology is applied to the traditional/non-traditional dwellings to interpret the components of the traditional/non-traditional dwellings. traditional/non-traditional dwellings were identified by the combinations of several design components.