Multi agent simulation of occupants' presence and behaviour

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2011: 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2110-2117

  Robinson, Darren ^a   Wilke, Urs ^a   Haldi, Frédéric ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Gartenmann Engineering AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870228555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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