Artificial intelligence for energy conservation in buildings

Advances in Building Energy Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 267-299

  Dounis, Anastasios I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Building energy management systems; Computational intelligence; Energy conservation; Fuzzy systems; Grey predictor; Intelligent agents; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955152986     PISSN: 17512549     EISSN: 17562201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/aber.2009.0408     Document Type: Article

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