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Author: Kontes

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 # Simulation-based Optimization of Building Control Strategies
 
+We examine the problem of simulation-based optimization of building control strategies using detailed thermal simulation models (e.g. developed using EnergyPlus, TRNSYS or Modelica), as defined in [1, 2].
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+As the simulation time of these building models can be a significant bottleneck, we define an optimization approach that requires as less simulation calls as possible. To achieve this, we adopt ideas from sample-efficient algorithms developed within model-based Reinforcement Learning [3, 4] and data-driven control [5, 6] domains.
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+## References
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+ 1. Kontes, G. D., Valmaseda, C., Giannakis, G. I., Katsigarakis, K. I., & Rovas, D. V. (2014). Intelligent BEMS design using detailed thermal simulation models and surrogate-based stochastic optimization. _Journal of Process Control, _24_(6), 846-855.
+ 2. Kontes, Georgios D. "Model Assisted Control for Energy Efficiency in Buildings." Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Crete, 2017.
+ 3. Deisenroth, M. P., and C. E. Rasmussen. "PILCO: A model-based and data-efficient approach to policy search." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning. International Machine Learning Society, 2011.
+ 4. Deisenroth, Marc Peter, Dieter Fox, and Carl Edward Rasmussen. "Gaussian processes for data-efficient learning in robotics and control." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 37.2 (2015): 408-423.
+ 5. Nghiem, Truong X., and Colin N. Jones. "Data-driven demand response modeling and control of buildings with gaussian processes." American Control Conference (ACC), 2017. IEEE, 2017.
+ 6. Jain, A., Nghiem, T. X., Morari, M., and Mangharam,, R. "Learning and control using Gaussian processes." Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2017.
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 ## Dependencies
 

algorithms/__init__.py

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buildings/SimpleRoomOpenLoop/Weathers/__init__.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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