Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation

The IUFP Algorithm for Generating Simulation Heart

In all systems simulation, random variates are considered as a main factor and based of simulation heart. Actually, randomization is inducted by random variates in the simulation. Due to the importance of such a problem, a new method for generation of random variates from continuous distributions is presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm, called uniform fractional part (UFP) is simpler...

Building Synthetic Graphical Documents for Performance Evaluation

In this paper we present a system to build synthetic graphical documents for the performance evaluation of symbol recognition systems. The key contribution of this work is the building of whole document like drawings or maps. We exploit the layer property of graphical documents by putting symbol sets in different ways from a same background using positioning constraints. Experiments are present...

Building Synthetic Graphic Documents for Performance Evaluation

In this paper we present a system to build synthetic graphic documents for performance evaluation using two main components. The first one performs a vectorial distortion on the objects without using any prior knowledge. The other position the objects in the documents using four filling algorithms allowing to preserve a partitioning between the objects and the document background. Experiments d...

On System Simulation for Building Performance Evaluation

This paper gives an overview and examples of various approaches to system simulation in buildings. Advantages and disadvantages of the different methods with respect to problems commonly encountered in building performance evaluation are described. Merits and drawbacks of the various methods and approaches are illustrated by case study material. Finally some conclusions and directions for futur...

Effects of flashfires on building occupants