A semantic service-oriented platform for energy efficient buildings

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 721-734

  Petri, Ioan ^a   Rezgui, Yacine ^a   Beach, Tom ^a   Li, Haijiang ^a   Arnesano, Marco ^b   Revel, Gian Marco ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buildings; Construction; Energy efficiency; Energy optimisation; Service oriented computing; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREEN COMPUTING; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SEMANTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONSTRUCTION STAKEHOLDERS; ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING; ENERGY OPTIMISATION; REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84938097238     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-014-0828-2     Document Type: Article

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