A bottom-up stochastic model to predict building occupants' time-dependent activities

Building and Environment

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 254-264

  Wilke, Urs ^a   Haldi, Frédéric ^b   Scartezzini, Jean Louis ^a   Robinson, Darren ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Gartenmann Engineering AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Multinomial logit; Residential; Simulation; Stochastic; Time use survey

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SIMULATION; CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CROSS-VALIDATION TECHNIQUE; GENERIC APPROACH; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; RESIDENTIAL; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STOCHASTIC; SUB-POPULATIONS; SURVEY DATA; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT ACTIVITY;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURVEYS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

FORECASTING;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84872410050     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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