Quantifying the performance gap-An initial probabilistic attempt

European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, EG-ICE 2013 - 20th International Workshop: Intelligent Computing in Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  De Wilde, Pieter ^a   Sun, Yuming ^b   Augenbroe, Godfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; DESIGN STAGE; ENERGYPLUS; NEW APPROACHES; PERFORMANCE GAPS; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84912557947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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