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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253989503321

Autore

Khazaii Javad

Titolo

Advanced Decision Making for HVAC Engineers : Creating Energy Efficient Smart Buildings / / by Javad Khazaii

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-33328-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 191 p. 40 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

658.26

Soggetti

Energy efficiency

Building construction

Energy systems

Operations research

Decision making

Energy Efficiency

Building Physics, HVAC

Energy Systems

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Heat Transfer in a Nutshell -- Load Calculation and Energy Modeling -- Data Centers -- Healthcare Facilities -- Laboratories -- Cleanrooms -- Commercial Kitchens and Dining Facilities -- Introduction -- Analytical Hierarchy Process -- Genetic Algorithm Optimization -- Pareto Base Optimization -- Decision making under uncertainty -- Agent Based Modeling -- Artificial Neural Network -- Fuzzy Logic -- Game Theory -- Buildings of the Future.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on some of the most energy-consuming HVAC systems; illuminating huge opportunities for energy savings in buildings that operate with these systems. The main discussion is on, cutting-edge decision making approaches, and algorithms in: decision making under uncertainty, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, agent based modeling, and game theory. These



methods are applied to HVAC systems, in order to help designers select the best options among the many available pathways for designing and the building of HVAC systems and applications. The discussion further evolves to depict how the buildings of the future can incorporate these advanced decision-making algorithms to become autonomous and truly ‘smart’.