Improving energy savings and thermal comfort in large-scale buildings via adaptive optimization

Control Theory: Perspectives, Applications and Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 315-335

  Michailidis, Iakovos T ^a   Baldi, Simone ^b   Kosmatopoulos, Elias B ^a   Pichler, Martin F ^c   Santiago, Juan R ^d  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b Department of Digestive Diseases   (Netherlands)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Institute of Building Physics (FIBP)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Building control and optimization; Climate control; Demand shaping; Large scale systems; Smart buildings

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; INVESTMENTS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL COMFORT;

ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION; BUILDING CONTROLS; COMFORT IMPROVEMENT; DEMAND SHAPING; LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PASSIVE SOLAR HEAT GAINS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

EID: 84957357113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1159/9781634827300.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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