Automatic Processing of User-Generated Content for the Description of Energy-Consuming Activities at Individual and Group Level

Our world population is increasing significantly resulting in a growing energy demand while the earth is running out if natural resources. This expanded energy demand directly affects climate change. Hence, there is an urgent need to move towards urban sustainability and to reduce our energy consumption. This calls upon a behavioral change in...

A Knowledge Discovery Framework for Understanding Energy Consumption Behavior using Social Data

Understanding energy consumption behavior provide an insightful knowledge to improve energy efficiency, promote energy conservation, and importantly sustain the human life. However, currently energy consumption data are being gathered by (smart) energy meters at the household level or through surveys. While gathering data using smart meter is...