Observation-based models of user control actions in buildings

PLEA 2008 - Towards Zero Energy Building: 25th PLEA International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mahdavi, Ardeshir ^a   Pröglhöf, Claus ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Behavioral models; Building automation; Environmental systems; User actions

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; LIGHTING; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

AUSTRIA; BEHAVIORAL MODEL; BUILDING AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; IN-BUILDINGS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATION-BASED MODEL; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR; PREDICTIVE MODELS; STATES AND EVENTS; USER ACTION; USER CONTROL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85067763180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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