The 4th ACM International Workshop on
Big Data and Machine Learning for Smart Buildings and Cities (In conjunction with ACM BuildSys 24)

 
6th, Nov, 2024
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China






Welcome to ACM BALANCES 2024

BALANCES'24 will be held in conjunction with ACM BuildSys 2024.

Important Dates

Nov. 6, 2024

Workshop Day

Oct. 4, 2024

Camera Ready Submission

Sept. 11, 2024

Notification to Authors

Sept. 9, 2024

Reviewer Deadline

Sept. 4, 2024

Paper Submission Deadline

Call for Papers

Submission Guidelines

Please submit through https://acmbalances24.hotcrp.com/.
And register through https://buildsys.acm.org/2024/.

Agenda


Onsite time:Nov 6 8:30am; All Times in BJT


Location:Room Mengquan

10:35am-10:40am

Closing Remarks

09:50am-10:35am

Presentation 5-7, 15 minutes for each presentation and Q&A


09:50-10:05 Reducing Carbon Emissions at Scale: Interpretable and Efficient to Implement Reinforcement Learning via Policy Extraction
Judah Goldfeder (Columbia University,Google) John Sipple (Google)


10:05-10:20 Analyzing the Performance of Time Series Foundation Models for Short-term Load Forecasting
Harish Kumar Saravanan (Indian Institute of Science) Shivam Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Science) Praveen P (Indian Institute of Science) Pandarasamy Arjunan (Indian Institute of Science)


10:20-10:35 A Data-driven Framework for Occupant-centric Demand Flexibility Potential Evaluation at Scale
Yufei Zhang (EPFL) Yang Deng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Rui Liang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yaohui Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Dan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Andrew Sonta (EPFL)

09:40am-09:50am

Break

08:40am-09:40am

Presentation 1-4, 15 minutes for each presentation and Q&A


08:40-08:55 A Machine Learning Framework for Optimising Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality through Sensor Data Streams
Chun Wai Chiu (University of Kent) Christos Efstratiou (University of Kent) Marialena Nikolopoulou (University of Kent) Matthew Barker (Baxall Construction Ltd.) Andrew Baldwin (Baxall Construction Ltd.) Malcolm Clarke (Baxall Construction Ltd.)


08:55-09:10 Investigating Domain Bias in NILM
Tanmaey Gupta, Anupam Sobti, Akshay Nambi Justus Breyer (Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University) Sparsh Jauhari (RWTH Aachen University) René Glebke (Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University) Muhammad Hamad Alizai (LUMS) Markus Stroot (IAEW, RWTH Aachen University) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University)


09:10-09:25 Towards Photovoltaic System Operation by Data-driven Models: System Deployment and New Insights
Ka Tai LAU (Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, HKSAR) Fang HE (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Dan WANG (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)


09:25-09:40 Multi-source Transfer Learning in Reinforcement Learning-based Home Battery Controller
Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi (IDLab, Ghent University - imec) Toon Van Puyvelde (IDLab, Ghent University - imec) Gargya Gokhale (IDLab, Ghent University - imec) Bert Claessens (Beebop) Chris Develder (IDLab, Ghent University - imec)

8:30am-8:40am

Opening Remarks

Organization


Technical Program Committee


TBA

Workshop Chairs

Prof. Zhipeng Deng
zhipeng.deng@ucf.edu

University of Central Florida
USA

Prof. Bing Dong
bidong@syr.edu

Syracuse University
USA

Dr. Sicheng Zhan
szhan@nus.edu.sg

National University of Singapore
Singapore

Best Regards from the ACM BALANCES Team
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