A performance assessment ontology for the environmental and energy management of buildings

Automation in Construction

Volumn 57, Issue , 2015, Pages 249-259

  Corry, Edward ^a   Pauwels, Pieter ^b   Hu, Shushan ^a   Keane, Marcus ^c   O'Donnell, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Buildings; Linked data; Ontology; Performance management; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BUILDINGS; DATA AS A SERVICE (DAAS); LIFE CYCLE; LINKED DATA; OFFICE BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGY;

BUILDING STAKEHOLDERS; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; LIFE-CYCLE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORKS; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 84938859483     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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