@conference {1502674,
	title = {Agents vote for the environment: Designing energy-efficient architecture },
	booktitle = {Workshop on Computational Sustainability (AAAI 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Saving energy is a major concern. Hence, it is fundamental to design and construct buildings that are
energy-efficient. It is known that the early stage of architectural design has a significant impact on this matter. However, it is complex to create designs that are
optimally energy efficient, and at the same time balance other essential criterias such as economics, space,
and safety. One state-of-the art approach is to create
parametric designs, and use a genetic algorithm to optimize across different objectives. We further improve
this method, by aggregating the solutions of multiple
agents. We evaluate diverse teams, composed by different agents; and uniform teams, composed by multiple
copies of a single agent. We test our approach across
three design cases of increasing complexity, and show
that the diverse team provides a significantly larger percentage of optimal solutions than single agents.},
	author = {L. S. Marcolino and D. Gerber and B. Kolev and S. Price and E. Pantazis and Tian, Y. and M. Tambe}
}
