Learning near-optimal decision rules for energy efficient building control

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7571-7576

  Domahidi, Alexander ^a   Ullmann, Fabian ^a   Morari, Manfred ^a   Jones, Colin N ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; CONTROLLERS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; INVESTMENTS; MACHINE LEARNING; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ADABOOST ALGORITHM; COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING; INVESTMENT COSTS; RANKING AND SELECTION; SIMULATION DATA; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84874279109     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2012.6426767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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