Importance analysis and meta-model construction with correlated variables in evaluation of thermal performance of campus buildings

Building and Environment

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-74

  Tian, Wei ^a,b   Choudhary, Ruchi ^c   Augenbroe, Godfried ^d   Lee, Sang Hoon ^e  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Tianjin Key Laboratory of Injuries   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building performance simulation; Building stock; Correlated variables; Meta model construction; Variable importance

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS; BUILDING STOCKS; CORRELATED VARIABLES; META MODEL; VARIABLE IMPORTANCES;

CONSTRUCTION;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; ENERGY USE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84929470856     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.04.021     Document Type: Article

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