Facade design optimization for daylight with a simple genetic algorithm

IBPSA 2007 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1162-1167

  Torres, Santiago L ^a   Sakamoto, Yuzo ^b  

^a ARUP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daylight; Dynamic simulation; Genetic algorithm; Optimization

Indexed keywords

DAYLIGHT; DAYLIGHTING SYSTEMS; DISCOMFORT GLARE; FACADE DESIGN; FAST CONVERGENCE; LIGHTING SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SIMPLE GENETIC ALGORITHM; TIME STEP; VISUAL DISCOMFORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAYLIGHTING; FACADES; OPTIMIZATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79955876956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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