Building automation systems for energy and comfort management in green buildings: A critical review and future directions

G Qiang, S Tang, J Hao, L Di Sarno, G Wu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Green building (GB) strategies are essential for mitigating energy wastage in the building
sector, which accounts for nearly 40% of global energy consumption. However, due to the …

Agent-based modeling and simulation in construction

A Khodabandelu, JW Park - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Agent-based modeling (ABM) has gained popularity in construction research because of its
unique system modeling features and recent advances in computing capabilities, leading to …

Ten questions concerning agent-based modeling of occupant behavior for energy and environmental performance of buildings

J Malik, A Mahdavi, E Azar, HC Putra, C Berger… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The complexity of occupant behavior is one of the major contributors to uncertainty in
building performance simulation. Agent-based modeling (ABM), a computational simulation …

Occupancy-based energy consumption modelling using machine learning algorithms for institutional buildings

P Anand, C Deb, K Yan, J Yang, D Cheong… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Occupancy information is one of the crucial variables in modelling and predicting the energy
use in buildings. However, the presence of occupants is often stochastic in nature. In the …

Occupant behavior impact in buildings and the artificial intelligence-based techniques and data-driven approach solutions

B Yan, W Yang, F He, W Zeng - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior in buildings might result into gap between predicted and actual energy
use and cause indoor thermal comfort fluctuations, due to its uncertainty and …

Modeling and simulation of energy-related human-building interaction: A systematic review

S Norouziasl, A Jafari, Y Zhu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Building energy use is highly sensitive to its occupants' energy-related behavior, including
their presence and interaction with different building systems. The modeling and simulation …

A level-of-details framework for representing occupant behavior in agent-based models

J Malik, E Azar, A Mahdavi, T Hong - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Agent-based modeling is an advanced computational technique capable of representing
complex and dynamic processes of human behavior in building performance simulation …

Modeling the energy community members' willingness to change their behaviour with multi-agent systems: A stochastic approach

MS Simoiu, I Fagarasan, S Ploix, V Calofir - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Collective actions in the context provided by energy communities and more sobriety from
energy users could both represent a potential solution for significantly reducing carbon …

OCCUPIED: Long-term field experiment results from an occupant-centric control in an office building

Z Jiang, Z O'Neill, B Dong - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of sensing technology, occupancy-based control (OBC)
demonstrated great energy saving potentials while maintaining a comfortable indoor …

Towards the objective of Net ZEB: Detailed energy analysis and cost assessment for new office buildings in Italy

S Di Turi, L Ronchetti, R Sannino - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the built environment has become one of the leading sectors in the challenge of
decarbonization and energy consumption reduction. Because of the specific use and the …