Modeling and Simulation of Individual User Behavior for Building Performance Predictions
Gerhard Zimmermann
Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2007 (SCSC 2007)
San Diego, California (USA), July 15-18, 2007
Abstract
User behavior is a key to the correct prediction of building performance. Performance is meant here not only in relation to energy consumption, but more importantly to user satisfaction and, in commercial buildings, job performance. The contributions of this paper are static and dynamic models of individual users and user activities in an office environment in relation to building control systems. The models are based on a well structured general model of five different domains of building entities, including user activities. Models for specific simulation projects are refinements of this general model. It is shown how multi-agent based simulations can be automatically derived from such models. A case study of an university office with irregular occupancy is introduced as an example.