A performance comparison of multi-objective optimization algorithms for solving nearly-zero-energy-building design problems

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 121, Issue , 2016, Pages 57-71

  Hamdy, Mohamed ^a,b,c   Nguyen, Anh Tuan ^d   Hensen, Jan L M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b HELWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Building simulation; Comparison; Experimentation; Multi objective optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PROBLEM SOLVING; SCREENING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BUILDING SIMULATION; COMPARISON; EXPERIMENTATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; NON- DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84963962000     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.03.035     Document Type: Article

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