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 …

In commercial buildings, lighting contributes to about 20% of the total energy consumption.
Lighting controllers that integrate occupancy and luminosity sensors to improve energy …

Building occupancy is a paramount factor in building energy simulations. Specifically,
lighting, plug loads, HVAC equipment utilization, fresh air requirements and internal heat …

The occupants' health, comfort, and productivity are important objectives for green building
design and operation. However, occupant behavior also has “passive” impact on the …

Energy-related occupant behavior in buildings is difficult to define and quantify, yet critical to
our understanding of total building energy consumption. Part I of this two-part paper …

Understanding the underlying dynamics of building energy consumption is the very first step
towards energy saving in building sector; as a powerful tool for knowledge discovery, data …

At the outset, there is no question that building energy use is largely influenced by the
presence and behavior of occupants. Among other, the key to realize energy use reduction …

Window operation is an important occupant behavior, and has significant impacts on
building energy consumption. Recently, various stochastic and non-stochastic models have …

This paper proposes a method comprising procedures to calibrate an EnergyPlus whole
building energy model. An occupant behavior data mining procedure is developed and …

Humans spend 90% of their lives inside buildings, but often the Heating, Ventilation, and Air
Conditioning (HVAC) systems of commercial buildings do not properly maintain occupant …