Solving an Air Conditioning System Problem using Constraint Satisfaction

Solving an Air Conditioning System Problem in an Embodiment Design Context Using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques

Evaluation of Peak Shifting and Energy Saving Potential of Ice Storage Based Air Conditioning Systems in Iran

Thermal energy storage (TES) system has been introduced as a practical facility for shifting load from peak hours to off-peak hours. Because of different energy consumption during day and night, peak and off peak period is created on load curve. Ice storage technology which is a kind of TES system, is implemented in different points of the world with the purpose of solving load shifting problem...

Bucket Elimination: a Unifying Framework for Structure-driven Inference

Bucket elimination is an algorithmic framework that generalizes dynamic programming to accommodate many complex problem-solving and reasoning tasks. Algorithms such as directional-resolution for proposi-tional satissability, adaptive-consistency for constraint satisfaction, Fourier and Gaussian elimination, for solving linear equalities and inequalities and dynamic programming for combinatorial...

Problem Solving in the DISCO Constraint Database System

This paper describes general approaches to solving two classes of problems using the DISCO constraint database system. The rst class of problems occurs when distinct values from a subset of the integers must be assigned to the variables of a constraint satisfaction problem. The second occurs when a group of items must be selected from a subset of the integers such that each of a set of constrai...

Automatic Design Synthesis and Optimization of Component-Based Systems by Evolutionary Algorithms

A novel approach for automatic design synthesis and optimization using evolutionary algorithms (EA) is introduced in the paper. The approach applies to component-based systems in general and is demonstrated with a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems problem. The whole process of the system design, including the initial stages that usually entail significant human involvemen...