this paper proposes a suitable benchmark for inefficient commercial bank branches by using data envelopment analysis (dea). in order to render an inefficient bank branch efficient, it is necessary to decrease inputs and increase outputs. as there are priorities for decreasing some certain inputs and increasing some certain outputs over other inputs and outputs, respectively, it is necessary to ...

This paper is concerned with the development of data-driven predictive models capable of forecasting commercial building heating loads based on BEM (Building Energy Management) systems recorded variables, as well as weather data. To address the lack of available complete datasets from actual commercial building BEM systems, a detailed representation of a reference building using EnergyPlus was ...

Reduced-order, multiobjective optimal controllers are developed for the Notre Dame structural control building model benchmark. Standard H 2 /LQG optimal control excels at noise and disturbance rejection, but may have difficulty with actuator saturation and plant uncertainty. The benchmark problem is adapted to a multiobjective optimal control framework, using l 1 and H ∞ constraints to improve...

This paper presents a semiactive control strategy for the seismic protection of the phase II smart base isolated benchmark building subjected to near-fault earthquakes. Magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers controlled by an optimal direct output feedback control algorithm with a voltage generator are used as semiactive control devices. The benchmark building is an eight-story base isolated buil...

This paper investigates the seismic response control of a nonlinear benchmark building with a new re-centering variable friction device (RVFD). The RVFD consists of three parts: (i) a friction generation unit, (ii) a piezoelectric actuator, and (iii) shape memory alloy wires. The friction unit and piezoelectric actuator compose the first subcomponent of the hybrid device that is a variable fric...

Material properties are requisite for all coupled heat and moisture transfer analysis, crucial to obtain clear insight into optimized control of the hygrothermal processes in building envelopes built environment. Unfortunately, current databases reported studies fail provide hygric porous materials exhaustively. This study characterized three – calcium silicate, autoclaved aerated concrete cera...

In this article, we propose a new approach for mobile robot localization and hybrid map building simultaneously without using any odometry hardware system. The proposed method termed as Genetic Bayesian ARAM comprises twomain components: (1) steadystate genetic algorithm (SSGA) for self-localization and occupancy grid map building and (2) Bayesian Adaptive Resonance Associative Memory (ARAM) fo...

We introduce FPBench, a standard benchmark format for validation and optimization of numerical accuracy in floating-point computations. FPBench is a first step toward addressing an increasing need in our community for comparisons and combinations of tools from different application domains. To this end, FPBench provides a basic floatingpoint benchmark format and accuracy measures for comparing ...

This paper describes a benchmark consisting of a set of synthetic measurements relative to an office environment simulated with the software IDA-ICE. The simulated environment reproduces a laboratory at the KTH–EES Smart Building, equipped with a building management system. The data set contains measurement records collected over a period of several days. The signals correspond to CO2 concentra...