Search

Data modeling supported by ontologies favors the organization of knowledge and the use of inference machines to obtain new knowledge about data and support expert decision-making. However, it is necessary to discuss the techniques to promote inferences and explore the semantics between the data. The research problem is to verify how the use of semantic technologies would represent an advantageous alternative, in relation to the state of the art, to analyze, systematize and organize the information of a domain, accelerating a decisionmaking process. It presents the concepts behind the development of an artifact that employs semantic technologies and a domain ontology to integrate data from Building Information Modeling projects and other tabular data external to the project to automate Leadership in Energy certification tasks and Environmental Design. To demonstrate the artifact, data is semantically annotated and a knowledge graph is generated in Resource Description Framework format. Once integrated into the graph, inferences are applied to evaluate the certification criteria through queries. The results suggest that the application of these technologies promotes semantic extension, facilitates integration with other knowledge bases, and conceptually organizes data to better retrieve information and generate new knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluating construction projects aims to measure how sustainable the built environments are and this is important to save the environment from increasing deterioration. However, most assessment tasks are carried out in different tools, at all stages of construction and even manually, consuming time and increasing the possibility of the errors. The research problem is to verify how the semantic technologies used would represent an advantageous alternative, in relation to the state of the art, to analyze, systematize and organize information from the domain of construction projects, accelerating the evaluation process. The concepts behind an experiment that employs semantic technologies and a domain ontology to integrate data from BIM (Building Information Modeling) projects and other tabular data external to the project to automate the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification tasks are presented. To produce the prototype of this experiment, data from a BIM project and open tabulated data from Belo Horizonte's city are semantically annotated and a knowledge graph is generated in RDF format. Once integrated into the graph, the data is used to assess the certification criteria through consultations. The results suggest that the domain analysis associated with semantic technologies promotes the conceptual extensibility of the constructive elements, enabling their integration with external knowledge bases. It also conceptually organizes data aiming to improve relevant information retrieval tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to identify in the literature how the relationships between information flow and informational behavior of users in formal organizations occur. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was performed in order to answer two defined research questions, through a rigorous protocol, which included the identification of the research, the selection of studies, evaluation of study quality, extraction and synthesis of data. The method enables process replication and subsequent peer verification. A total of 608 studies were identified in the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar databases, which after applying the selection criteria resulted in six approved studies that relate the concepts of information flow and informational behavior in organizations. Of these approved studies, four have direct interference between flow and behavior. Although no approved study cites the concept of formal organization, it has been inferred that some studies dealing with companies and their respective sectors are implicitly addressing formal organizations. It is concluded that of the six publications that met the proposed objective, four address the flow of information as an element that can influence or be influenced by informational behavior in organizations. The relationships between flow and informational behavior in formal organizations are under explored in the literature. Analyzing the details of these relationships is relevant to the field that aims to propose solutions involving these two phenomena in organizational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]