Occupant behavior modeling for building performance simulation: Current state and future challenges

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 264-278

  Yan, Da ^a   O'Brien, William ^b   Hong, Tianzhen ^c   Feng, Xiaohang ^a   Burak Gunay, H ^b   Tahmasebi, Farhang ^d   Mahdavi, Ardeshir ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Building simulation; Energy efficiency; Energy modeling; Energy use; Occupant behavior

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BUILDING ENERGY MODEL; BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS; BUILDING SIMULATION; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY USE; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84940513201     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.08.032     Document Type: Article

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