Utilization of daylight in indoor spaces creates opportunities for energy savings and is linked to increasing productivity in the workplace. This sensitive aspect in environmentally aware architectural design depends on many interfacing factors. In this research, ceiling geometry is investigated...

The difficulty in gas price forecasting has attracted much attention of academic researchers and business practitioners. Various methods have been tried to solve the problem of forecasting gas prices however, all of the existing models of prediction cannot meet practical needs. In this paper, a...

Local wind climate is usually measured and described as the result of a regional wind climate modulated by local topography effects, roughness and obstacles in the surrounding area. This paper renders a fuzzy-logic-based method designed to generate the local wind conditions originated by these...

Unit commitment (UC) is a very important optimization task, which plays a major role in the daily operation planning of electric power systems that is why UC is a core research topic attracting a lot of research efforts. An innovative method based on an advanced memetic algorithm (MA) for the...

The optimization of building cooling heating and power (BCHP) system is helpful to improve its comprehensive performance including energetic, economic and environmental aspects. However, the optimal results are closely dependent on the initial setting parameters. This paper deduces the energy...