Literature Review of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Expert Systems in Buildings and HVAC&R System Design

ASHRAE Winter Meetings CD, Technical and Symposium Papers

Volumn 2003, Issue , 2003, Pages 11-24

  Maor, Itzhak ^a   Reddy, T A ^b  

^a PWI Energy ^*  (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND SEARCH; ENERGY STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEATING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 1842589278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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