The paper reviews 66 studies on large language models (LLMs) applied to HVAC operations in building energy systems, categorizing them by application and method families and evaluating their evidence realism and deployment readiness. It finds that most work focuses on building energy modelling, with only four studies reaching pilot-level evidence and none reporting sustained operational deployment. LLMs are currently best suited as semantic and workflow layers—such as point‑name normalisation and document‑grounded operator support—rather than autonomous HVAC controllers, and future research should target field‑validated benchmarks and safe, low‑latency LLM‑MPC/RL integrations.
By Alexander Neubauer, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, Mengbo Yu, Amin Darbandi, Yannick F\"urst, Martin Kriegel
arXiv:2606. 17637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building Management Systems (BMS) are essential for optimizing energy efficiency and operational performance in modern buildings.
By Yiyue Qian, Shinan Zhang, Huan Song, Negin Sokhandan, Hannah Marlowe, Diego Socolinsky
The paper introduces a SAREF-compliant ontology designed to represent distributed AI workflows across edge, fog, and cloud environments. It extends the SAREF4SYST ontology with concepts for AI pipelines, executable jobs, resources, deployment constraints, and communication links, creating a unified semantic model for both AI workflows and heterogeneous infrastructures. Evaluation through smart‑grid energy service scenarios and competency questions demonstrates successful deployment, reasoning, and workload adaptation, achieving 90‑100% deployment success and sub‑80 ms orchestration times.
By Viorica Rozina Chifu, Tudor Cioara, Vasile Ofrim, Liana Toderean, Ionut Anghel, Laura Daniele, Cornelis Bouter
This paper presents an ontology-supported approach to tackle the complexity of the Robustness Validation (RV) process of automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) components. The approach uses formalized...
arXiv:2608.22974v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents rely heavily on knowledge encoded in model parameters or presented as unstructured context. In domain-specific tasks,...
By Xiaohui Zhang, Zequn Sun, Chengyuan Yang, Yuanning Cui, Lingbing Guo, Wei Hu
arXiv:2608. 16421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an ontology-supported approach to tackle the complexity of the Robustness Validation (RV) process of automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) components.
By Jan Novacek, Alexander Viehl, Oliver Bringmann, Wolfgang Rosenstiel