Conference Paper

Proceedings of BauSim Conference 2012: 4th Conference of IBPSA-Germany and Austria

Exploring the utility of semantic web technology in building performance simulation

Ardeshir Mahdavi, Ulrich Pont, Ferial Shayeganfar, Neda Ghiassi

Abstract: The simulation-based assessment and evaluation of alternative building design and retrofit options requires large amounts of information. Thus, efforts are necessary to support the process of data search and collection, such that building models for performance evaluation routines and applications could be efficiently populated. The web environment can provide large amounts of potentially useful information. In this context, the present contribution reports on the SEMERGY project, which explores the utility of the semantic web technologies toward populating the input data for building performance simulation models via the navigation of the extensive but currently ill-structured web-based information space pertaining to building materials, elements, components, and systems, as well as resources and documents concerning procedural, climatic, and financial information.
Pages: 58 - 64
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