Leveraging the analysis of parametric uncertainty for building energy model calibration

Building Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 365-377

  Zheng, O'Neill ^a,b   Eisenhower, Bryan ^c  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; EnergyPlus; meta model based optimization; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881603255     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0125-8     Document Type: Article

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