Reductive bottom-up urban energy computing supported by multivariate cluster analysis

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 144, Issue , 2017, Pages 372-386

  Ghiassi, Neda ^a   Mahdavi, Ardeshir ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Building stock; GIS; Multivariate cluster analysis; Sampling; Urban energy computing; Urban energy modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLUSTER COMPUTING; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; BUILDING STOCKS; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; MODEL PARAMETRIZATION; MULTIVARIATE CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; URBAN ENERGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 85017401735     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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