<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jérôme Henri Kämpf</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michael Wetter</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Darren Robinson</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A comparison of global optimization algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Building Performance Simulation</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">algorithm</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">application using energyplus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building energy minimization</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy algorithm and hybrid differential evolution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">optimization</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">particle swarm optimization and hooke-jeeves</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">103-120</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;There is an increasing interest in the use of computer algorithms to identify combinations of parameters which optimize the energy performance of buildings. For such problems, the objective function can be multi-modal and needs to be approximated numerically using building energy simulation programs. As these programs contain iterative solution algorithms, they introduce discontinuities in the numerical approximation to the objective function. Metaheuristics often work well for such problems, but their convergence to a global optimum cannot be established formally. Moreover, different algorithms tend to be suited to particular classes of optimization problems. To shed light on this issue we compared the performance of two metaheuristics, the hybrid CMA-ES/HDE and the hybrid PSO/HJ, in minimizing standard benchmark functions and real-world building energy optimization problems of varying complexity. From this we find that the CMA-ES/HDE performs well on more complex objective functions, but that the PSO/HJ more consistently identifies the global minimum for simpler objective functions. Both identified similar values in the objective functions arising from energy simulations, but with different combinations of model parameters. This may suggest that the objective function is multi-modal. The algorithms also correctly identified some non-intuitive parameter combinations that were caused by a simplified controls sequence of the building energy system that does not represent actual practice, further reinforcing their utility.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue></record></records></xml>