Building operations represent a significant percentage of the total primary energy consumed
in most countries due to the proliferation of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning …

Occupant behavior is now widely recognized as a major contributing factor to uncertainty of
building performance. While a surge of research on the topic has occurred over the past four …

The “human dimensions” of energy use in buildings refer to the energy-related behaviors of
key stakeholders that affect energy use over the building life cycle. Stakeholders include …

Occupant behavior is one of the major factors influencing building energy consumption and
contributing to uncertainty in building energy use prediction and simulation. Currently the …

Occupant behavior is nowadays acknowledged as a main source of discrepancy between
predicted and actual building performance; therefore, researchers attempt to model …

This paper develops and validates an agent-based model (ABM) of occupant behavior using
data from a one-year field study in a medium-sized, air-conditioned office building. The full …

Occupancy schedules and density can have a substantial influence on building plug,
lighting, and air conditioning energy usage. In recent years, the study related to occupancy …

The objective of this paper is to review the topics related to the optimized operation of
intelligent buildings with respect to occupant comfort and energy consumption. To …

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 …

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 …