Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications

Bennani, Imane Lahmam; Prakash, Anand Krishnan; Zafiris, Marina; Paul, Lazlo; Roa, Carlos Duarte; Raftery, Paul; Pritoni, Marco; Fierro, Gabe

doi:10.1145/3486611.3486671

Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications

Conference · Wed Nov 17 04:00:00 EST 2021 · Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3486611.3486671· OSTI ID:1880038

Bennani, Imane Lahmam ^[1]; Prakash, Anand Krishnan ^[2]; Zafiris, Marina ^[2]; Paul, Lazlo ^[2]; Roa, Carlos Duarte ^[3]; Raftery, Paul ^[3]; Pritoni, Marco ^[2]; Fierro, Gabe ^[4]

ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California Berkeley
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Semantic metadata standards pave the way for interoperability by providing building operators and application developers with common schemes to describe building resources. Applications can query building metadata models to retrieve the set of entities and relationships they need to operate, instead of hard-coding references to specific points and objects from the underlying data sources. Currently, querying such models requires the developer to be very specific when formulating queries in order to obtain meaningful answers (or any answer). The developer is inevitably expected to be familiar with the systems and components of the buildings being queried, as well as the schema used to represent them. The variety of buildings - both in the composition of their subsystems and in how they happen to be modeled - means that the developer will need to use multiple queries in order to retrieve necessary results. This is complex, time-consuming and error-prone. To address this limitation, we investigate query relaxation as a technique to facilitate discovery of meaningful building resources in a collection of ontology-based buildings data. We evaluate our query relaxation approach over a set of Brick models and demonstrate its use in the context of real-world building applications.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC36-08GO28308; EE0008681

OSTI ID:: 1880038

Conference Information:: Journal Name: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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