Mining building performance data for energy-efficient operation

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 341-354

  Ahmed, Ammar ^a   Korres, Nicholas E ^a   Ploennigs, Joern ^b   Elhadi, Haithum ^c   Menzel, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Decision support; Energy efficiency; Indoor daylight; Intelligent building; Occupants' thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BASIC ELEMENTS; BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DECISION SUPPORTS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; INDOOR DAYLIGHT; LOW ENERGIES; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; OCCUPANTS' THERMAL COMFORT; PREDICTION MODEL; TEST SETS;

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL COMFORT;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79954420517     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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