Modelling Electricity Consumption in Office Buildings: An Agent Based Approach
This addresses electricity management problems for office building operators, but it is incremental as it applies an existing agent-based approach to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of simulating electricity consumption in office buildings by developing an agent-based model that integrates organizational policies, technologies, appliances, and human behavior, and uses a case study to test management strategies and solve practical consumption issues.
In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, to simulate the electricity consumption in office buildings. Based on a case study, we use this model to test the effectiveness of different electricity management strategies, and solve practical office electricity consumption problems. This paper theoretically contributes to an integration of the four elements involved in the complex organisational issue of office electricity consumption, and practically contributes to an application of an agent-based approach for office building electricity consumption study.