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In order to ensure thermal energy efficiency and follow government’s thermal guidance, more flexible and efficient buildings’ thermal controls are required. This paper focuses on proposing scalable, efficient and simple thermal control approach based on imprecise knowledge of buildings’ specificities. Its main principle is a weak data-dependency which ensures the scalability and simplicity of our thermal enhancement approach. For this, an extended thermal qualitative model is proposed. It is based on a qualitative description of influences that actions’ parameters may have on buildings’ thermal performances. Our thermal qualitative model is enriched by collecting and assessing previous thermal control performances. Thus, an approximate reasoning for a smart thermal control becomes effective based on our extended thermal qualitative model.
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Denguir, A., Trousset, F., Montmain, J. (2014). Approximate Reasoning for an Efficient, Scalable and Simple Thermal Control Enhancement. In: Laurent, A., Strauss, O., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08795-5_43
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