User behavior in whole building simulation

Using Whole Building Simulation Models in Commissioning

The commissioning process has seldom used simulation as part of the commissioning process to date. It has been used for isolated retrocommissioning projects (e.g. Liu and Claridge 1995, Liu et al. 1999). However, there appears to be significant opportunity to utilize simulations as part of the commissioning process, particularly when simulation models are used as (1) part of the design process,...

Modeling and simulation of individual user behavior for building performance predictions

User behavior is a key to the correct prediction of building performance. Performance is meant here not only in relation to energy consumption, but more importantly to user satisfaction and, in commercial buildings, job performance. The contributions of this paper are static and dynamic models of individual users and user activities in an office environment in relation to building control syste...

An improved explicit scheme for whole-building hygrothermal simulation

Although implicit methods require extra calculation, they have been largely used for obtaining numerical approximations of time-dependent differential conservation equations in the building science domain, thanks to their stability conditions that enable the use of larger time steps. Nevertheless, they require important sub-iterations when dealing with highly nonlinear problems such as the comb...

Whole Building Control System Design and Evaluation: Simulation-Based Assessment

Behavior Specific User Simulation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Spoken dialogue systems provide an opportunity for man machine interaction using spoken language as the medium of interaction. In recent years reinforcement learning-based dialogue policy optimization has evolved to be state of the art. In order to cope with the data requirement for policy optimization and also to evaluate dialogue policies user simulators are introduced. Almost all existing da...