Distributed building performance simulation—a novel approach to overcome legacy code limitations

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 621-640

  Radosevic, M Trcka ^a   Hensen, J L M ^a   Wijsman, A J T M ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VABI Software   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BUILDING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED BUILDING; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; LEGACY CODE; RUN-TIME COUPLING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746389390     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2006.10391198     Document Type: Article

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