OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Building Performance Simulation is 4. 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
Disaggregation of climatic variables using a novel stochastic approach and its application in building performance simulation studies	19
Optimising building stock retrofits for urban-scale action planning: improving the feasibility without losing information	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
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
A deep convolutional neural network based on U-Net to predict annual luminance maps	13
Integrated urban heat sinks for low-carbon neighbourhoods: dissipating heat to the ground and sky through building structures	12
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
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
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
Spawn: coupling Modelica Buildings Library and EnergyPlus to enable new energy system and control applications	10
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
Reducing the energy performance gap through stepwise verification of building and system functions	9
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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