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The scientific community has been studying graph data models for decades. Their high expressiveness and elasticity led the scientific community to design a variety of graph data models and graph query languages, and the practitioners to use…
Enhancing interoperability and information exchange between domain-specific software products for BIM is an important aspect in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations industry. Recent research started investigating…
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Benchmark data sets are an indispensable ingredient of the evaluation of graph-based machine learning methods. We release a new data set, compiled from International Planning Competitions (IPC), for benchmarking graph classification,…
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In this paper, we represent a methodology of a graph embeddings algorithm that is used to transform labeled property graphs obtained from a Building Information Model (BIM). Industrial Foundation Classes (IFC) is a standard schema for BIM,…
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) files are commonly used for data exchange of Building Information Models (BIMs). Due to the equivalent transformations in the graph structure of IFC data, it is a challenge to perform version comparison and…
Graph algorithms play an important role in many computer science areas. In order to solve problems that can be modeled using graphs, it is necessary to use a data structure that can represent those graphs in an efficient manner. On top of…
The holistic management of a building requires data from heterogeneous sources such as building management systems (BMS), Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor networks, and building information models. Data interoperability is a key component to…
Large language models have significantly improved natural language interfaces to databases by translating user questions into executable queries. In particular, Text2Cypher focuses on generating Cypher queries for graph databases, enabling…
While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods commonly draw information from unstructured documents, the emerging paradigm of GraphRAG aims to leverage structured data such as knowledge graphs. Most existing GraphRAG efforts focus on…
Graphs have become the best way we know of representing knowledge. The computing community has investigated and developed the support for managing graphs by means of digital technology. Graph databases and knowledge graphs surface as the…