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] . "Generic Optimization Program User Manual Version 3.0.0." 2009: 380-391. LBNL-2077E.
. BuildOpt 1.0.1 validation. 2004. LBNL-54658.
. "Design choices for thermofluid flow components and systems that are exported as Functional Mockup Units." (2015). LBNL-1002826. 
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." Building and Environment 39.8 (2004) 989-999.
. "Building Design Optimization Using a Convergent Pattern Search Algorithm with Adaptive Precision Simulations." Energy and Buildings 37 (2004) 603-612.
. "A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation." . Proceedings of the 8th IBPSA Conference 2003: 1393-1400.
. "Modeling of Heat Transfer in Rooms in the Modelica "Buildings" Library." 12th Conference of International Building Performance Ssimulation Association 2011: 1096-1103. LBNL-5563E. PDF (564.83 KB)
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PDF (154.83 KB). "Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems." Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 2009. Paper PDF (358 KB) Abstract PDF (199.33 KB)
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. "Co-simulation of building energy and control systems with the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed." Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.4 (2011). PDF (1.41 MB)
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PDF (1.41 MB). "Modelica versus TRNSYS — A Comparison Between an Equation-Based and a Procedural Modeling Language for Building Energy Simulation." Proc. of the 2nd SimBuild Conference 2006.
. "Control Description Language." 1st American Modelica Conference. 2018. LBNL-2001219. PDF (1011.1 KB)
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. "Multizone Building Model for Thermal Building Simulation in Modelica." Proc. of the 5th International Modelica Conference 2006: 517-526.
. "A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 25.4 (2004) 327-338.
. "OpenBuildingControl: Modeling Feedback Control as a Step Towards Formal Design, Specification, Deployment and Verification of Building Control Sequences." 2018 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA. Chicago, IL, 2018.
. "A Modelica-Based Model Library for Building Energy and Control Systems." Building Simulation '09. Glasgow, Scotland, 2008.
. "Using SPARK as a Solver for Modelica." SimBuild 2008. Berkeley, CA, USA, 2008.
. "Analysis of heating load diversity in German residential districts and implications for the application in district heating systems." Energy and Buildings 139 (2017) 302-313. PDF (2.25 MB)
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. "Efficient modeling of optically-complex, non-coplanar exterior shading: Validation of matrix algebraic methods." Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 464 - 483. PDF (3.07 MB)
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