5 papers
AI-Assisted Knowledge Access for Legacy Enterprise Asset Management in Energy Operations: A Practical Retrieval System
Dave Mercier, Mishca de Costa, Muhammad Anwar +2
Energy utilities still run engineering work management, engineering procurement, and inventory processes on long-lived enterprise asset management platforms. Replacing these platfo…
From Naive RAG to Deep Agentic Retrieval: An Evolving Context Engineering Pipeline for Regulatory Compliance
Mishca de Costa, Muhammad Saleh Anwar, Dave Mercier +1
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the dominant paradigm for applying large language models (LLMs) to enterprise document corpora, yet naive implementations encounter hard lim…
Enhancing Phase Clustering in Nanomechanical Property Maps of Multiphase Materials Using Kernel-Averaged Mechanical Mismatch
David Mercier, Yasmine El Gharoussi
This work presents a novel approach to improve phase identification in nanomechanical property maps of multiphase materials, such as those obtained by nanoindentation or atomic for…
A Curated Literature Database for Monitoring More Than 30 Years of Ansys Granta Product Usage
David Mercier
Engineering and materials software is increasingly difficult to track in the scholarly and technical literature because publication volume is growing rapidly and software citation…
Enhancing Accuracy and Maintainability in Nuclear Plant Data Retrieval: A Function-Calling LLM Approach Over NL-to-SQL
Mishca de Costa, Muhammad Anwar, Dave Mercier +2
Retrieving operational data from nuclear power plants requires exceptional accuracy and transparency due to the criticality of the decisions it supports. Traditionally, natural lan…