OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Building Performance Simulation is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Simulating annual autoregulation of daylight by grating smart window with angular-selective transmission	98
Modeling and simulation of risk-information processing in decision-making during pedestrian seismic evacuation	47
Quantifying and simulating the weather forecast uncertainty for advanced building control	32
Why has advanced commercial HVAC control not yet achieved its promise?	26
Optimising building stock retrofits for urban-scale action planning: improving the feasibility without losing information	19
Disaggregation of climatic variables using a novel stochastic approach and its application in building performance simulation studies	19
Developing a statistical electric vehicle charging model and its application in the performance assessment of a sustainable urban charging hub	18
Solving parametric problems in building renovation with a spectral reduced-order method	16
Co-cooling, simulation-based exploration of a new method to measure the heat transfer coefficient of a building envelope in hot climate and summer period	15
A deep convolutional neural network based on U-Net to predict annual luminance maps	13
Empirical modelling of variable capacity air-to-air heat pumps intrnsys	13
Trade-off decisions in a novel deep reinforcement learning for energy savings in HVAC systems	13
Integrated urban heat sinks for low-carbon neighbourhoods: dissipating heat to the ground and sky through building structures	12
Indoor occupancy monitoring using environmental feature fusion and semi-supervised machine learning models	11
Parameter estimation of unknown properties using transfer learning from virtual to existing buildings	11
Improving the accuracy of circadian lighting simulation with field measurement	11
A software interface for coupled underground and facility simulations between OpenGeoSys and Modelica	11
Exploring the impacts of numerosity reduction on the data-driven building energy analysis for a proposed building	11
Spawn: coupling Modelica Buildings Library and EnergyPlus to enable new energy system and control applications	10
Performance assessment of RBFMOpt, NSGA2, and MHACO on the thermal and energy optimization of an office building	10
A novel approach to account for shape-morphing and kinetic shading systems in building energy performance simulations	10
Reducing the energy performance gap through stepwise verification of building and system functions	9
Modelling and mitigating lifetime impact of building demand responsive control of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems	9
Impact of geometric parameters on the performance of naturally ventilated photovoltaic curtain walls	9
Development and testing of an automated tool to leverage building energy models for thermal resilience analysis	8

Development of a Bayesian calibration framework for archetype-based housing stock models of summer indoor temperature	8
A tool for generation of stochastic occupant-based internal loads using a functional data analysis approach to re-define ‘activity’	8
Improved calibration of building models using approximate Bayesian calibration and neural networks	8
Model predictive lighting control for a factory building using a deep deterministic policy gradient	8
The use of dimensionality reduction techniques for fault detection and diagnosis in a AHU unit: critical assessment of its reliability	8
Exploring multi-domain simulation workflows for ‘Sustainable cities & communities’ (UN SDG11)	7
Factors affecting air distribution in air conditioning air supply room based on SUPG finite element and zero equation	7
Documenting occupant models for building performance simulation: a state-of-the-art	7
A comprehensive model considering multiple types of occupant behavior for building energy performance prediction and simulation – taking a university campus as an example	7
Characterizing spatial variability in the temperature field to support thermal model validation in a naturally ventilated building	7
Evaluation of insulation effectiveness for thermal comfort in summers: experimental and CFD numerical study	7
Regulating window operations using HVAC terminal devices’ control sequences: a simulation-based investigation	7
Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of building-stock energy models: sampling procedure, stock size and Sobol’ convergence	7
Thermally anisotropic building envelope for thermal management: finite element model calibration using field evaluation data	7
Calibrating lighting simulation with panoramic high dynamic range imaging	6
Evaluating urban outdoor thermal comfort: a validation of ENVI-met simulation through field measurement	6
Numerical simulation of a novel VRF-SV hybrid system performance in a large retail facility in the tropics	6
Importance of measuring the temperature of paved surfaces to study the changes in the microclimate of an urban area	6
Performance-informed urban design: training a generalized surrogate model for predicting building energy demand across residential morphologies in Singapore	6
Dynamic heat transfer simulation method of building envelope based on Laguerre polynomials model order reduction	5
A novel integrated method of fsQCA and digital design for sustainability monitoring and assessment in building energy management systems: a case study	5
Enhanced TimesNet algorithm with ConvNext and fusion of time–frequency domain features in fault detection and diagnosis of HVAC systems	5
Numerical analysis-based performance prediction in a direct evaporative cooler used for building cooling	5
A hybrid clustering multi-source fault diagnosis method for chiller temperature sensors	5
Theoretical and experimental study of the multistage dynamic dehumidifier for enhanced thermal comfort conditions in a building	5
Model-predictive space heating control for energy flexibility – a case study using a long short-term memory neural network surrogate model and a genetic optimization algorithm	5
Electromagnetic energy in buildings: analysis of the effect of roof shape and treated materials	5
Airvox: efficient computational fluid dynamics prediction using 3D convolutional neural networks for building design	5
Indoor thermal behaviour of an office equipped with a ventilated slab: a numerical study	4
Variation in residential occupancy profiles in the United States by household income level and characteristics	4
Towards advanced uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of building energy performance using machine learning techniques	4
Unveiling overlooked aspects of model predictive control for building air conditioning systems	4
Towards digital twinning for multi-domain simulation workflows in urban design: a case study in Gothenburg	4
A data-driven model for building energy normalization to enable eco-feedback in multi-family residential buildings with smart and connected technology	4
Control-oriented thermal network models for predictive load management in Canadian houses with on-Site solar electricity generation: application to a research house	4
Effect of temperature-dependent and hysteretic sorption in computational mould risk analyses of wood fibreboard sheathing	4
Risk of incorrect choices due to uncertainty in BPS evaluations of conceptual-stage neighbourhood-scale building designs	4
Thermal performance prediction of street trees inside isolated open spaces – evaluations from real scale retrofitting project	4
A pre-processing method of internal thermal mass for building energy simulation software	4
A hybrid system of data-driven approaches for simulating residential energy demand profiles	4
Quality assurance for building-stock energy models: a performance comparison of eleven uncertainty and sensitivity analysis methods	4
Research on predicting heat loads based on extracting temporal and spatial features of multiple buildings using data-driven methods	4
Estimating the value of jointly optimized electric power generation and end use: a study of ISO-scale load shaping applied to the residential building stock	4
Validation of spectral simulation tools in the context of ipRGC-influenced light responses of building occupants	4
COVID-19 dispersion in naturally-ventilated classrooms: a study on inlet-outlet characteristics	3
Balcony design and surrounding constructions effects on natural ventilation performance and thermal comfort using CFD simulation: a case study	3
Smart choice or flawed approach? An exploration of connected thermostat data fidelity and use in data-driven modelling in high-rise residential buildings	3
Development of a bottom-up white-box building stock energy model for single-family dwellings	3
An efficient approach for thermal design of masonry walls using design charts and R-value multipliers	3
Methodology and analytical approach to investigate the impact of building temperature setpoint schedules	3

Retraining surrogate models in increasingly restricted design spaces: a novel building energy model calibration method	3
An archetype-based energy modelling approach for a remote, subarctic community	3
Thermal performance optimization for housing unit design in a cold region of China	3
Chance constrained stochastic MPC for building climate control under combined parametric and additive uncertainty	3
Implementation of real-time model predictive heating control for a factory building using ANN-based lumped modelling approach	3
Hybrid model using Bayesian neural network for variable refrigerant flow system	3
On the simulation of occupant-centric control for building operations	3
Co-simulating a greenhouse in a building to quantify co-benefits of different coupled configurations	3
Developing machine-learning meta-models for high-rise residential district cooling in hot and humid climate	3
A high-fidelity building performance simulation test bed for the development and evaluation of advanced controls	3
Household energy and comfort impacts under teleworking scenarios via a zoned residential HVAC system	3
Optimizing the design of courtyard houses for passive cooling in hot, dry regions	2
Controls of HVAC systems in digital twins – comparative framework and case study on the performance gap	2
Computational psychrometric analysis as a control problem: case of cooling and dehumidification systems	2
Experiments and simulations on the energy performance of semi-transparent photovoltaic roof-integrated skylight glazing	2
Comprehensive framework for dynamic energy assessment of building systems using IFC graphs and Modelica	2
On modelling of resiliency events using building performance simulation: a multi-objective approach	2
Energy modelling and analysis of variable speed series fan-powered terminal units (FPTUs) using energy management system (EMS) in EnergyPlus	2
Comparing the economic performance of ice storage and batteries for buildings with on-site PV through model predictive control and optimal sizing	2
Accommodating new calculation approaches in next-generation energy performance assessments	2
A whole building life-cycle assessment methodology and its application for carbon footprint analysis of U.S. commercial buildings	2
Monitoring and simulation-based optimization of two multi-apartment NZEBs with heat pump, solar thermal and PV	2
Thermal performance of shaded roofs: investigating the impact of material properties and efficacy of building performance simulation	2
Modelling the cooling effectiveness of street trees with actual canopy drag and real transpiration rate under representative climatic conditions	2
Linear regression based indoor daylight illuminance estimation with simple measurements for daylight-linked lighting control	2
Real-time predictive control of HVAC systems for factory building using lightweight data-driven model	2
Data-driven numerical models for the prediction of the thermal resistance value of the Enclosed Airspaces (EAs) in building envelopes	2
Rooftop unit comparison calculator: a framework for comparing performance of rooftop units with building energy simulation	2
Thermal comfort modelling and empirical validation of predicted air temperature in hot-summer Mediterranean courtyards	2
Coupled mass and heat transfer modelling in building envelopes to consistently assess human exposure and energy performance in indoor environments	1
A review on reduced order models for building and urban energy simulations	1
A framework for calibrating and validating an HVAC system in Modelica	1
Adaptation to extreme weather events using pre-conditioning: a model-based testing of novel resilience algorithms on a residential case study	1
Development of variable refrigerant flow heat-pump model for annual-energy simulation	1
Quantifying the spatial variation of the energy performance gap for the existing housing stock in England and Wales	1
Temperature-dependency of hysteretic sorption in hygrothermal modelling of wood fibreboard sheathing: analysis of exterior wall laboratory experiments	1
A call to action for building energy system modelling in the age of decarbonization	1
Study of the influence of input parameters in an air channel on mass and heat transfer phenomena within a wall saturated with water: application to the renovation of old wet buildings	1
Calculating solar irradiance without shading geometry: a point cloud-based method	1
Modelling thermostat use behaviour in multi-zone residential buildings: a real-world data study and simulation framework for peak demand management	1
Parametric design workflow for solar, context-adaptive and reusable facades in changing urban environments	1
Achieving realtime daylight factor computation for modular buildings in generative design	1
Transport and control of kitchen pollutants in Nanjing based on the Modelica multizone model	1
Occupancy and equipment usage prototype schedules for building energy simulations of office building types in China	1
Design of a model predictive control methodology for integration of retrofitted air‐based PV/T system in school buildings	1
Short-term building cooling load prediction based on AKNN and RNN models	1
Climate adaptivity of urban form: an evaluation by the case study of Medina of Fès	1
Limitations and issues of conventional artificial neural network-based surrogate models for building energy retrofit	1
Surrogate optimization of energy retrofits in domestic building stocks using household carbon valuations	1
Experimental and numerical investigation of transparent insulation material to enhance the heating performance of an innovative Trombe Wall in Mediterranean climates	1
Integrated control of radiant floor heating systems in residential buildings	1
Cooling peak load reduction potential of ventilated slabs: a numerical study	1
Using Fourier series to obtain cross periodic wall response factors	1
PSO-guided optimal estimator enabled regularized adaptive extended Kalman filter with unknown inputs for dynamic nonlinear indoor thermal state estimation	1
Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of energy consumption in substation buildings at the planning stage	1
Dynamic thermal performance of district heating network under typical safety accidents	1
Mitigating peak load and heat stress under heatwaves by optimizing adjustments of fan speed and thermostat setpoint	1
Dynamic thermal behaviour characterization of integrated insulation clay hollow blocks for buildings energy simulations applications	1
Assessment of infection probability indices for airborne diseases in confined spaces: combination of CFD and analytical modelling	1
Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation	1
Experimental and numerical analysis of CO₂ transport inside a university classroom: effects of turbulent models	1
Room-level domestic occupancy simulation model using time use survey data	1
The imperative for reproducibility in building performance simulation research	1