Paper Title
DATA-DRIVEN URBAN ENERGY SIMULATION FOR MEGA-CITY BY INTEGRATING MACHINE LEARNING INTO AN URBAN BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION MODELING: A CASE STUDY OF GUANGDONG-HONG KONG-MACAO GREATER BAY AREA

Abstract
Abstract - Understanding regional building energy patterns is the prerequisite to efficiently and effectively promote sustainable urban development. Previous studies have proposed various data-driven methods to investigate therelationship between building energy consumption and hundreds of potential influencing features. To identify the critical features, this study develops a data-driven random forest (RF) based framework, consisting of 24,764 buildings in 881 city-blocks, to model the relationship between city-block-level building-oriented features and building energy consumption.The RF model is found to outperform other machine learning models including logistic regression, k-nearest neighborhood, support vector machine, and decision tree models in the predictive accuracy of the classification problem. Keywords - Building Energy Modeling