Key factors methodology - A novel support to the decision making process of the building energy manager in defining optimal operation strategies

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 158-163

  Costa, Andrea ^a   Keane, Marcus M ^a   Raftery, Paul ^a   O'Donnell, James ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy manager; Building energy simulation; Building operation strategies; Decision making process; Energy consumption; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS; BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; BUILDING OPERATIONS; CONTROL SETTINGS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENERGY MANAGERS; ENERGY SYSTEMS; IN-CONTROL; MEASURED DATA; OPTIMAL OPERATION STRATEGY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROTOTYPE TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MANAGERS; THERMAL COMFORT;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 84861809975     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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