Contaminant source identification within a building: Toward design of immune buildings

Building and Environment

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 320-329

  Bastani, Arash ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Kozinski, Janusz A ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ANN; Building simulation; Gas release; Immune building; Sensor; Source identification

Indexed keywords

ANN; BUILDING SIMULATION; GAS RELEASE; IMMUNE BUILDING; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION;

CONTAMINATION; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS;

BUILDINGS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING; IMMUNITY; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84255194366     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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