A decision tree method for building energy demand modeling

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1637-1646

  Yu, Zhun ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Fung, Benjamin C M ^b   Yoshino, Hiroshi ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Tohoku University ^*  (Canada)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Building energy consumption; Classification analysis; Decision tree; Modeling

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DATA RECORDS; DATA SUBSETS; DECISION TREE METHOD; HIGH BUILDING; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; REGRESSION METHOD; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA; TREE STRUCTURES;

BUILDINGS; COMPETITION; DECISION TREES; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 77955585423     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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