ACKNOWLEDGMENT

GraphAide was developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

## Authors and Contributors

**Lead Developer:** Sumit Purohit (sumit.purohit@pnnl.gov)

**Contributors:**
- George Chin (PNNL)
- Patrick S. Mackey (PNNL)
- Joseph A. Cottam (PNNL)

## Funding and Support

This research was supported by the:
- **Resilience Through Data Driven, Intelligently Designed Control (RD2C) Initiative** at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- **United States Federal Government**

## Research Citation

If you use GraphAide in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{purohit2024graphaide,
  title={GraphAide: Advanced Graph-Assisted Query and Reasoning System},
  author={Purohit, Sumit and Chin, George and Mackey, Patrick S and Cottam, Joseph A},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)},
  pages={3485--3493},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}
```

## External Libraries and Projects

GraphAide builds upon the following open-source projects:

- **LangGraph** — Multi-agent orchestration framework
- **Neo4j** — Graph database
- **LangChain** — LLM framework and integrations
- **ChromaDB** — Vector store for embeddings
- **Qdrant** — Vector database
- **PyPDF** — PDF processing
- **RDFlib** — RDF/Ontology processing
- **Sentence Transformers** — Embedding models
- **Pydantic** — Data validation
- **FastAPI** — REST API framework
- **Material for MkDocs** — Documentation theme

## Special Thanks

Thanks to all contributors, researchers, and users who have provided feedback and improvements to GraphAide.

## Contact

For questions, suggestions, or support, please reach out to:
- **Email:** sumit.purohit@pnnl.gov
- **GitHub Issues:** https://github.com/pnnl/GraphAide/issues
- **GitHub Discussions:** https://github.com/pnnl/GraphAide/discussions

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*Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a multiprogram national laboratory operated for the US Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830.*
