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This ontology module does not intend to be an alternative to any building ontology. In turn, it aims to represent only the needed concepts and relations for GECAD's simulation tools in the scope of the MAS-Society project.
The IESO's Building module describes buildings' topology concepts and relations as needed in the scope of the MAS-Society project.
The IESO’s Building module defines terminology related to buildings’ topologies. Although not importing external ontologies, this module is inspired and received input from the Building Topology Ontology (BOT), the Smart Energy Aware Systems (SEAS) Building Ontology, and an extension of the Smart Appliances REFerence (SAREF) ontology for buildings (SAREF4BLDG). The Building ontology module does not present itself as an alternative to any existing building ontology. Instead, it aims to represent only the necessary concepts and relations in the scope of the MAS-Society. Inspired by BOT’s definition, its root concept is Zone, from which the Building, Site, Space, and Storey concepts are subclasses. These classes are directly mapped to the respective BOT classes using the owl:sameAs OWL property. In turn, BOT ontology already provides alignment modules with the most used ontologies defining building-related terminology. Likewise, application ontologies extend this domain module as needed.
@prefix ieso: <https://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/ieso/v1.1.0/> .