An intelligent agent based approach for energy management in commercial buildings

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 156-162

  Hagras, Hani ^a,b   Packham, Ian ^c   Vanderstockt, Yann ^c   McNulty, Nicholas ^c   Vadher, Abhay ^c   Doctor, Faiyaz ^b  

^a GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Lightwave Technologies Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIESEL ENGINES; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GAS EMISSIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; ICE; ICE CONTROL; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AGENT BASED APPROACHES; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AMBIENT WEATHERS; AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL LIGHTINGS; COMFORT LEVELS; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCES; COMPUTING SERVICES; ENERGY CONSUMPTIONS; ENERGY COST SAVINGS; ENERGY COSTS; ENERGY DEMANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXISTING BUILDINGS; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; KYOTO PROTOCOLS; LARGE BUILDINGS; PLANT RESPONSES; THERMAL RESPONSES; TO MANY; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 55249096964     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2008.4630359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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