Heterogeneous transfer learning for thermal comfort modeling

W Hu, Y Luo, Z Lu, Y Wen - Proceedings of the 6th ACM international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
For decades, the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) model has been adopted to evaluate building
occupants' thermal comfort. However, recent studies argue that the PMV model is inaccurate …

A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings

N Somu, A Sriram, A Kowli, K Ramamritham - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the thermal condition of living spaces affects the occupants' productivity and their
quality of life, it is important to design effective heating, ventilation and air conditioning …

Data-efficient Comfort Modeling: Active Transfer Learning for Predicting Personal Thermal Comfort using Limited Data

ZD Tekler, Y Lei, A Chong - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Personal comfort models are used to predict thermal comfort responses at the individual
level rather than predicting the average thermal comfort responses for large populations …

Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities

N Gao, W Shao, MS Rahaman, J Zhai, K David… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system is an important part of
a building, which constitutes up to 40% of building energy usage. The main purpose of …

Multi-task learning for concurrent prediction of thermal comfort, sensation and preference in winters

B Lala, H Rizk, SM Kala, A Hagishima - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Indoor thermal comfort immensely impacts the health and performance of occupants.
Therefore, researchers and engineers have proposed numerous computational models to …

Transfer learning in the transformer model for thermal comfort prediction: a case of limited data

X Zhang, P Li - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system is an important component of
a building's energy consumption, and its primary function is to provide a comfortable thermal …

Building matters: Spatial variability in machine learning based thermal comfort prediction in winters

B Lala, SM Kala, A Rastogi, K Dahiya… - … on Smart Computing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal comfort in indoor environments has an enormous impact on the health, well-being,
and performance of occupants. Given the focus on energy efficiency and Internet of Things …

Time series-based deep learning model for personal thermal comfort prediction

A Chennapragada, D Periyakoil, HP Das… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Personal thermal comfort models are crucial for the future of human-in-the-loop HVAC
control in energy-efficient buildings. Individual comfort models, compared to average …

Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we?

M Quintana, S Schiavon, KW Tham… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Thermal comfort assessment for the built environment has become more available to
analysts and researchers due to the proliferation of sensors and subjective feedback …

Data-driven thermal comfort prediction with support vector machine

B Peng, SJ Hsieh - … Manufacturing Science and …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Personal thermal comfort is a crucial yet often over-simplified factor in building climate
control. Traditional comfort models lack the adaptability to fit individuals' demand. Recent …