Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2013

Abstract

This innovative application paper presents TESLA, an agent-based application for optimizing the energy use in commercial buildings. TESLA’s key insight is that adding flexibility to event/meeting schedules can lead to significant energy savings. TESLA provides three key contributions: (i) three online scheduling algorithms that consider flexibility of people’s preferences for energyefficient scheduling of incrementally/dynamically arriving meetings and events; (ii) an algorithm to effectively identify key meetings that lead to significant energy savings by adjusting their flexibility; and (iii) surveys of real users that indicate that TESLA’s assumptions exist in practice. TESLA was evaluated on data of over 110,000 meetings held at nine campus buildings during eight months in 2011–2012 at USC and SMU. These results show that, compared to the current systems, TESLA can substantially reduce overall energy consumption.

Keywords

Innovative Applications, Energy, Sustainable Multiagent Building Application, Energy-oriented Scheduling, Algorithms, Experimentation, Human Factors

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Business | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Publication

AAMAS '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: May 6-10, 2013, St. Paul, MN, USA

First Page

2638

Last Page

2643

ISBN

9781450319935

Publisher

IFAAMAS

City or Country

Richland, SC

Additional URL

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1625700

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