Modeling occupancy and behavior for better building design and operation—A critical review

B Dong, D Yan, Z Li, Y Jin, X Feng, H Fontenot - Building Simulation, 2018 - Springer
… This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current modeling efforts of … occupancy
models for various applications including building energy performance analysis, building

Simulation of occupancy in buildings

X Feng, D Yan, T Hong - Energy and Buildings, 2015 - Elsevier
… and comparison of literature on occupancy modeling, three representative occupancy
Occupancy models are supposed to support the design and evaluation of building performance by …

Occupancy modeling and prediction for building energy management

VL Erickson, MÁ Carreira-Perpinán… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
… EnergyPlus is one of the premiere tools for modeling the energy of buildings. It takes into
account factors such as weather, HVAC design, and construction materials. In this section we …

A systematic approach to occupancy modeling in ambient sensor-rich buildings

Z Yang, N Li, B Becerik-Gerber, M Orosz - Simulation, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… Most traditional HVAC operations assume that the demand for ventilation and conditioning
to be at the peak level based on the maximum design occupancy of a building during …

Behavioral variables and occupancy patterns in the design and modeling of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings

C Carpino, D Mora, N Arcuri, M De Simone - Building Simulation, 2017 - Springer
… The aim of this study is to assess the influence of housing occupancy patterns … a building
designed according to the National Standards. Successively, different conditions of the building

Occupancy behavior based model predictive control for building indoor climate—A critical review

A Mirakhorli, B Dong - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
… in buildings, and importance of occupancy based controls. Various control-oriented …
building thermal modeling and occupancy behavior modeling for MPC design are reviewed. …

The deployment-dependence of occupancy-related models in building performance simulation

A Mahdavi, F Tahmasebi - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
… study is on the design stage and it … occupancy modeling options for building performance
simulation results, we briefly compared the occupancy model outputs to the actual occupancy

Building occupancy modeling using generative adversarial network

Z Chen, C Jiang - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
… Due to the different functionality of the G and D networks, we design two different neural …
For the G network, the designed neural network can be formulated as follows: (2) h k = ∑ i = 1 L …

An approach for building occupancy modelling considering the urban context

H Hou, J Pawlak, A Sivakumar, B Howard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… be shown in this paper, these models can also underpin the operationalisation of building
… , which can provide information on occupancy despite not being designed to do so as the …

Modeling occupant behavior in buildings

S Carlucci, M De Simone, SK Firth, MB Kjærgaard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… , and data-driven methods) for modeling occupancy-related target functions and a set of …
-designed overview of the methods and techniques used for modeling OPA in buildings in order …