Sustainable building design: A review on recent metaheuristic methods

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 585, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-223

  Asadi, Somayeh ^a   Geem, Zong Woo ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design; Heuristic methods; Optimization; Residential and commercial building; Sustainable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927137529     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13826-8_11     Document Type: Article

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