A systematic procedure to study the influence of occupant behavior on building energy consumption

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1409-1417

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

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

^b Tohoku University ^*  (Canada)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Public Works and Government Services Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building energy consumption; Cluster analysis; Data mining; Grey relational analysis; Occupant behavior

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; DATA INCONSISTENCIES; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA PREPROCESSING; END-USES; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; GREY RELATIONAL GRADE; MEASUREMENT DATA; MIN-MAX; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BUILDINGS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INFORMATION THEORY;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 79953766575     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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