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M. Taheri, F. Tahmasebi, A. Mahdavi:
"Consideration of Inhabitants' Diversity in Building Performance Simulation: Does It Matter?";
Talk: Building Simulation 2017 - 15th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, San Francisco, USA; 2017-08-07 - 2017-08-09; in: "Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference San Francisco, CA, USA, Aug. 7-9, 2017", IBPSA (ed.); IBPSA, (2017), 82 - 88.

Buildings' energy and indoor environmental performance
is influenced by people's presence, activities, and actions.
Hence, building performance simulation needs to include
representations of occupants and their interactions with
buildings. Many efforts were undertaken to integrate
occupants' presence and behaviour models in building
performance simulation tools. However, uncertainty
associated with occupancy-related assumptions remains a
key challenge in building performance simulation. In this
context, a major source of uncertainty is related to the
inter-individual differences (diversity) in inhabitants'
patterns of presence and actions. In the present
contribution, we explore the degree to which the
consideration of diversity can affect the results of
standard simulation-based building performance queries.

(no german version) Buildings' energy and indoor environmental performance
is influenced by people's presence, activities, and actions.
Hence, building performance simulation needs to include
representations of occupants and their interactions with
buildings. Many efforts were undertaken to integrate
occupants' presence and behaviour models in building
performance simulation tools. However, uncertainty
associated with occupancy-related assumptions remains a
key challenge in building performance simulation. In this
context, a major source of uncertainty is related to the
inter-individual differences (diversity) in inhabitants'
patterns of presence and actions. In the present
contribution, we explore the degree to which the
consideration of diversity can affect the results of
standard simulation-based building performance queries.