01905nas a2200217   4500008004100000022001400041245009000055210006900145260001200214300001100226520113500237653001301372653003101385653003101416653002301447653003301470100001401503700001901517700001501536856013601551       2018                        eng d  a1940-149300aBuildings.Occupants: a Modelica package for modelling occupant behaviour in buildings0 aBuildingsOccupants a Modelica package for modelling occupant beh  c11/2018  a1 - 123 a<p>Energy-related occupant behaviour is crucial to design and operation of energy and control systems in buildings. Occupant behaviours are often oversimplified as static schedules or settings in building performance simulation ignoring their stochastic nature. The continuous and dynamic interaction between occupants and building systems motivates their simultaneous simulation in an efficient manner. In the past, simultaneous simulation has relied on co-simulation approaches or customized source code changes to building simulation programmes. This paper presents Buildings. Occupants, an open-source package implemented in Modelica, for the simulation of occupant behaviours of lighting, windows, blinds, heating and air conditioning systems in office and residential buildings. Examples were presented to illustrate how the models in the Occupants package are capable to simulate stochastic occupant behaviours. The major contribution of this work is to introduce the equation-based modelling approach to simulate occupant behaviours in buildings and to develop an open-source Occupants package in the Modelica language</p>10amodelica10aModelica Buildings Library10aModelica Occupants Package10aOccupant Behaviour10aOccupant behaviour modelling1 aWang, Zhe1 aHong, Tianzhen1 aJia, Ruoxi  uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19401493.2018.1543352https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19401493.2018.1543352