A new methodology for building energy performance benchmarking: An approach based on intelligent clustering algorithm

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 607-616

  Gao, Xuefeng ^a   Malkawi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building performance; Clustering algorithm; Energy benchmarking; Multi dimensional features

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; ENERGY BENCHMARKING; INTELLIGENT CLUSTERING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84907526518     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.08.030     Document Type: Article

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