Unification as a standardization tool in the design of information systems and a unified project model: MITOS

摘要

Building production process has a complex nature and fragmented structure due to the charac-teristics of project type productions, i.e., number of participants, various organizational patterns, multi-phased production etc. Some of the currently available information system solutions and models in both conceptual and practical dimensions try to provide an integration through the phases of building production process in terms of various management-related functions by integrating the components that correspond to these functions. Due to the fragmented structure stated above, research projects that focuses on integration in IS solu-tions are encouraged in construction industry. However integration is not the only tool to use for defragmen-tation; unification, which can be defined as the combination of more than one models into one unique model fulfilling the functions of each model combined, is another conceptual tool. This paper presents an integrated design of a unified information system, MITOS (Multi-phase Integrated Automation System for construction industry), and unification concept as a standardization tool in the design process of information system mod-els.