@conference {1503010,
	title = {Aggregating Opinions to Design Energy-Efficient Buildings },
	booktitle = {8th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {In this research-in-progress paper we present a new real
world domain for studying the aggregation of different
opinions: early stage architectural design of buildings.
This is an important real world application, not only
because building design and construction is one of the
world{\textquoteright}s largest industries measured by global expenditures, but also because the early stage design decision
making has a significant impact on the energy consumption of buildings. We present a mapping between the domain of architecture and engineering research and that
of the agent models present in the literature. We study
the importance of forming diverse teams when aggregating the opinions of different agents for architectural
design, and also the effect of having agents optimizing
for different factors of a multi-objective optimization
design problem. We find that a diverse team of agents is
able to provide a higher number of top ranked solutions
for the early stage designer to choose from. Finally, we
present the next steps for a deeper exploration of our
questions.},
	author = {L. S. Marcolino and B. Kolev and S. Price and S. P. Veetil and D. Gerber and J. Musil and M. Tambe}
}
