Improving building energy efficiency with a network of sensing, learning and prediction agents

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-40

  Mamidi, Sunil ^a   Chang, Yu Han ^a   Maheswaran, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive agents; Energy efficiency; Environmental sensing; Occupancy prediction

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE-AGENTS; BUILDING APPLICATIONS; BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTIMODAL SENSOR; OCCUPANCY PREDICTIONS; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 84899453646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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