Global warming is already significantly impacting communities, their health and
infrastructure. Previous studies showed that climate change is making the earth warmer …

In contemporary workplace design, human performance is still limited to systemic
exploration and rational trade-offs due to methodological issues. To resolve this problem …

The complexity of occupant behavior is one of the major contributors to uncertainty in
building performance simulation. Agent-based modeling (ABM), a computational simulation …

One of the main required actions for moving forward in zero-carbon cities' mission is to
increase building energy efficiency. Building energy simulations are key tools for HVAC …

Improving the reliability of energy simulation outputs is becoming a pressing task to reduce
the performance gap between the design and the operation of buildings. Occupant …

This paper is concerned with the representation of building users in simulation applications
that explore buildings' energy and indoor environmental performance. In recent years, efforts …

Cities play an essential role in energy consumption and its environmental impacts. Urban
Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) can help optimize the built environment's energy …

With local control of a large number of objects that mutually influence each other, the
problem of coordinating local control systems to achieve the best overall result arises. If the …

Indoor electrical systems are aimed to provide comfort to the occupants. However, their
operation is contingent on the presence or needs of the residents. Hence, to optimize energy …

With local control of a large number of objects that mutually infuence each other, the
problem of coordinating local control systems to achieve the best overall result arises. If the …