Abstract This paper presents three ensemble learning models for short term load forecasting. Machine has evolved quickly in recent years, leading to novel and advanced that are improving the forecasting results multiple fields. However, highly dynamic fields such as power energy systems, dealing with fast acquisition of large amounts data from sources taking advantage correlation between availa...

As a result of economic and political requirements, renewable energy investments are supported with various incentives all over the world, while fossil fuel systems restricted by regulations. This article aims to make conventional heating, cooling power more efficient or develop an alternative system based on modeling office building. Considering three scenarios - classical heating-cooling syst...

The debate on sustainable development has lead to the view of buildings as flows (mass, energy, money and information) or capitals. In this context buildings are considered as the largest physical, economical, social and cultural capital of a society. In Germany many institutions record different kind of data about buildings. Unfortunately there are just a few basic statistics about the amount ...

Our starting point in this paper is that CSCW has analyzed and conceptualized many cooperative artifacts, though never the “modern” open office space, dominating discussions of new ways of working, flexible offices and the learning organization. It is our basic suspicion that many of the ideas behind such office design are contradicting to how CSCW views cooperation as basis for learning and kn...