A hybrid decision support system for sustainable office building renovation and energy performance improvement

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-297

  Juan, Yi Kai ^a,c   Gao, Peng ^b   Wang, Jie ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Energy performance; Genetic algorithms; Heuristic best first algorithms; Office buildings; Sustainable renovation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING QUALITY; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; DECISION SUPPORTS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; GRAPH SEARCH ALGORITHM; HYBRID APPROACH; INTEGRATED DECISION; OPTIMAL SETS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; REAL PROJECTS; REAL-WORLD; SUBSTANTIAL ENERGY; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING; TWO-STAGE SYSTEMS; ZERO-ONE GOAL PROGRAMMING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 72649093786     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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