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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):

F. Tahmasebi:
"Modeling Occupants for Building Performance Simulation";
Talk: Current Topics in Building Performance WinterTerm 2015/2016, Wien; 2015-10-09 - 2016-01-22.



English abstract:
Background | Building Performance Simulation
Background | Occupants & Building Performance
Background | Occupancy Modeling
Background | Representation of occupant behavior
Background | Occupants' presence models
Study #1: Predicting occupants' presence
Monitored office area
Example: Observed arrival & inverse sampling
1st probabilistic occupancy model (Reinhart, 2001)
2nd probabilistic occupancy model (Page et al. 2008)
A non-probabilistic model (Mahdavi et al. 2014)
Implementation & evaluation - predictive approach
Model evaluation statistics
Evaluation results
Study #1: Conclusions
Study #2: Implications for conventional simulation results
Case study 1: Reference office building
Non-repeating occupancy profiles
Simulation scenarios
Case study 1: results
Case study 2
Simulation scenarios
Results - occupancy predictions
Results - Internal heat gains
Results - Building performance indicators
Study #2: Conclusion
Future work
Acknowledgements

German abstract:
Background | Building Performance Simulation
Background | Occupants & Building Performance
Background | Occupancy Modeling
Background | Representation of occupant behavior
Background | Occupants' presence models
Study #1: Predicting occupants' presence
Monitored office area
Example: Observed arrival & inverse sampling
1st probabilistic occupancy model (Reinhart, 2001)
2nd probabilistic occupancy model (Page et al. 2008)
A non-probabilistic model (Mahdavi et al. 2014)
Implementation & evaluation - predictive approach
Model evaluation statistics
Evaluation results
Study #1: Conclusions
Study #2: Implications for conventional simulation results
Case study 1: Reference office building
Non-repeating occupancy profiles
Simulation scenarios
Case study 1: results
Case study 2
Simulation scenarios
Results - occupancy predictions
Results - Internal heat gains
Results - Building performance indicators
Study #2: Conclusion
Future work
Acknowledgements

Keywords:
occupancy modelling, building performance simulation, heat gains, arrival

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