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A. Mahdavi, F. Tahmasebi:
"The Inter-individual Variance of the Defining Markers of Occupancy Patterns in Office Buildings: A Case Study";
in: "Proceedings of the 14 IBPSA Conference", V Garg et al. (ed.); issued by: IBPSA; IBPSA, Hyderabad, India, 2015, Paper ID 2163, 5 pages.

Recently. increased efforts have been invested to enhance the sophistication of occupancy modelling approaches in building performance simulation. However, the effectiveness of such approaches depends on the robustness of the underlying empirical information. Thereby, an important question pertains to the existance and level of inter-individual differences in occupancy patterns. In the present contribution, we use a repository of monitored occupancy data in an office building to addess this problem empirically. While this repository does not include a large enough number of occupants to warrant a statistically significant treatment, it does allow for initiating a discussion of the diversity in observed occupancy profiles and the implications for relevant occupancy models in building performance simulation.

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