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Building energy consumption and environmental emission are significantly influenced by end-users, and building energy simulations tools are used to optimize the performance of the building. Currently, most of the simulation tools considered oversimplified behaviour and contribute to the energy gap between the predicted and actual consumption. However, the building energy performance also depends on occupant dynamic behaviours and this tools fails to capture the dynamic occupant behaviour. To overcome this, developing a co-simulation platform is an effective approach to integrate an occupant behaviour modelling using a multi-agent-based simulation with building energy simulation tools. The co-simulation process is conducted in Building Control Virtual Testbed (BCVTB), a virtual simulation coupling tool that integrates the two separate simulations on a time step basis. This method is applied to a case study of a multi-occupant office building within an engineering school in France. The result shows the applicability and relevance of the developed platform.
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The author acknowledge the financial support of the CPER FORBOIS 2–2016-2020 project. Secondly, the author also acknowledge Campus France and the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education for their financial support.
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Ebuy, H.T., Bril El-Haouzi, H., Pannequin, R., Benelmir, R. (2021). Multi-agent Simulation of Occupant Behaviour Impact on Building Energy Consumption. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Cardin, O., Lamouri, S. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2020. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69373-2_25
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