Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Results of the Second Interna

This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB’10, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, and organised by KES International. Organised by the KES Int

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Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 7 Editors-in-Chief Prof. Robert J. Howlett KES International PO Box 2115 Shoreham-by-sea BN43 9AF UK E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of South Australia Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia SA 5095 Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol. 1. Toyoaki Nishida, Lakhmi C. Jain, and Colette Faucher (Eds.) Modeling Machine Emotions for Realizing Intelligence, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-12603-1 Vol. 2. George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Software Development Challenges and Solutions, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-13354-1 Vol. 3. George A. Tsihrintzis and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-13395-4 Vol. 4. Gloria Phillips-Wren, Lakhmi C. Jain, Kazumi Nakamatsu, and Robert J. Howlett (Eds.) Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies – Proceedings of the Second KES International Symposium IDT 2010, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-14615-2 Vol. 5. Robert J. Howlett (Ed.) Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-14593-3 Vol. 6. George A. Tsihrintzis, Ernesto Damiani, Maria Virvou, Robert J. Howlett, and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-14618-3 Vol. 7. Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, and Shaun H. Lee (Eds.) Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-17386-8

Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, and Shaun H. Lee (Eds.)

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Results of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB’10)

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Prof. Robert J. Howlett

Dr. Shaun H. Lee

KES International P.O. Box 2115, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 9AF, UK E-mail: [email protected]

KES International 2nd Floor, 145-157 St. John Street London, EC1V 4PY UK E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, South Australia SA 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-17386-8

e-ISBN 978-3-642-17387-5

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17387-5 Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

ISSN 2190-3018

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