Artificial Intelligence in Energy Efficient Buildings
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 3391
Special Issue Editors
Interests: performance-based design; computational design; self-sufficiency; high-rise buildings; artificial intelligence; machine learning; heuristic optimisation
Interests: performance-based design; computational design, architecture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: daylight performance of buildings; architectural lighting in building physics; energy performance and its relation to building attributes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has stated that buildings and the construction sector are responsible for almost one-third of global final energy consumption. For this reason, energy efficiency has become an inevitable necessity in buildings to achieve sustainable cities in the future. In this context, researchers should deal with the efficiency of the existing building stock, as well as forthcoming constructions. Although transforming existing buildings may require different strategies/actions to designing new buildings for achieving energy efficiency, recent applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in buildings suggest that swift and remarkable improvements in energy performance can be attained. Thanks to the data-driven approach of AI methods, the performance of the buildings can be enhanced in a wide array of ways, such as reducing the heating, cooling, and lighting energy consumption, etc. In this respect, we encourage researchers to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Energy-Efficient Buildings” by considering novel methods and applications using either digital (e.g., building performance simulation) or empirical (e.g., real-time monitoring) data in areas including, but not limited to:
- AI methods for swift and accurate energy performance evaluation in the conceptual design and building operation phases.
- Machine learning for predicting building energy consumption (heating, cooling, lighting, HVAC).
- Deep learning for building operation and occupancy behaviour.
- Building energy optimisation with surrogate modelling.
- Improving energy efficiency via building-integrated photovoltaics using machine learning and optimisation algorithms.
- AI in the performative design of buildings.
- AI tools, techniques, and methods in computational form-finding strategies.
- AI in the performance of smart and liveable cities.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Prof. Dr. M. Fatih Taşgetiren, a world-renowned expert on heuristic optimization and scheduling in operations research, who was one of the guest editors of the “Artificial Intelligence in Energy Efficient Buildings” special issue in Energies. We wish Prof. Taşgetiren rest in peace and present our condolences to the Taşgetiren Family, his colleagues, students and all his loved ones worldwide.
Dr. Berk Ekici
Prof. Dr. I. Sevil Sariyildiz
Prof. Dr. Z. Tuğçe Kazanasmaz
Prof. Dr. Gülden Gökçen Akkurt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building energy efficiency
- building integrated photovoltaics
- surrogate modeling
- artificial intelligence
- optimization
- computational design
- building operation
- smart buildings and cities
