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Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Huws, H., & Jankovic, L. (2013). Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (1357-1364). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.2116

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance. Future predictions of temperatures are showing an increase in Cooling Degree Days (CCD), even under a low carbon emissions scenario. This... Read More about Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house.

A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (3729-3736). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.1387

The simulation performance gap is a discrepancy between simulated and actual performance of a building, occurring as result of differences between theoretical values in the simulation model and actual properties of and conditions in and around the bu... Read More about A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering.

A scenario-based analysis of building energy performance (2013)
Journal Article
Caputo, S., Caserio, M., Coles, R., Jankovic, L., & Gaterell, M. (2013). A scenario-based analysis of building energy performance. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 166, 326--348. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.12.00008

Inherent to the sustainability discourse is concern about the long-term future. If sustainable, cities must deliver positive benefits over their possibly long lifetime. Yet in formulating guidance and negotiating design choices for urban development,... Read More about A scenario-based analysis of building energy performance.

Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (337-346). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00395-5_44

Development of the human society and its technological, economic and financial systems, coupled with the population growth, has resulted in high interconnectivity between individual and corporate entities. These entities form networks of co-dependent... Read More about Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change.

Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2013). Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of Sustainable procurement in urban regeneration and renovation

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon
negative performance. The house has been under detailed instrumental monitoring, external and
internal thermal imaging, and detailed simulation analysis. The... Read More about Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis.

Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2012). Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change. In Proceedings of BSO Conference 2012: 1st Conference of IBPSA-England (65-72)

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance through retrofit. The house has been extensively simulated in parallel with detailed instrumental monitoring. A dynamic simulation model of the house... Read More about Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change.

Testing energy efficiency in urban regeneration (2012)
Journal Article
Caputo, S., Caserio, M., Coles, R., Jankovic, L., & Gaterell, M. R. (2012). Testing energy efficiency in urban regeneration. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 165, 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2012.165.1.69

One of the main objectives currently pursued in planning sustainable urban environments is the reduction of energy consumption. Strategies for energy and the built environment are given in UK planning policies. Yet the application of such strategies... Read More about Testing energy efficiency in urban regeneration.

'Complexity and urban systems' (2012)
Book Chapter
Jankovic, L. (2012). 'Complexity and urban systems'. In D. Lombardi, J. Leach, & C. Rogers (Eds.), Designing resilient cities : A Guide to Good Practice. IHS BRE Press

Elucidating Sustainability Sequencing, Tensions, and Trade-Offs in Development Decision Making (2011)
Journal Article
Lombardi, D. R., Caserio, M., Donovan, R., Hale, J., Hunt, D. V. L., Weingaertner, C., …Rogers, C. D. F. (2011). Elucidating Sustainability Sequencing, Tensions, and Trade-Offs in Development Decision Making. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38, 1105-1121. https://doi.org/10.1068/b36161

The development process at the site or building scale is a multiobjective process requiring the cooperation of many professions and other stakeholders. The addition of multiple sustainability objectives, often seemingly unrelated (economic versus env... Read More about Elucidating Sustainability Sequencing, Tensions, and Trade-Offs in Development Decision Making.

Sustainable energy? A feasibility study for Eastside, Birmingham, UK (2006)
Journal Article
Hunt, D. V. L., Jefferson, I., Jankovic, L., & Hunot, K. (2006). Sustainable energy? A feasibility study for Eastside, Birmingham, UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 159(4), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2006.159.4.155

Eastside, a 130 ha brownfield site located to the eastern side of Birmingham's city centre, is undergoing social, economic and environmental changes, driven mainly through public and private investment estimated to be worth £6 billion. The regenerati... Read More about Sustainable energy? A feasibility study for Eastside, Birmingham, UK.

CAST – City Analysis Simulation Tool: An Integrated Model of Land Use, Population, Transport, and Economics (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., Hopwood, W., & Alwan, Z. (2005). CAST – City Analysis Simulation Tool: An Integrated Model of Land Use, Population, Transport, and Economics. In CUPUM '05: Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management - Abstracts of the 9th International Conference

The paper reports on research into city modelling based on principles of
Science of Complexity. It focuses on integration of major processes in cities, such as
economics, land use, transport and population movement. This is achieved using an
exten... Read More about CAST – City Analysis Simulation Tool: An Integrated Model of Land Use, Population, Transport, and Economics.

Simulation of the Complexity of Cities with CAST (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., Hopwood, W., & Alwan, Z. (2005). Simulation of the Complexity of Cities with CAST. In Proceedings of European Simulation and Modelling 2005 (56-58)

This paper presents the experience of development and operation of CAST - a City Analysis Simulation Tool. The work is based on collaboration between researchers, urban practitioners and computer scientists. The underlying principles of CAST are desi... Read More about Simulation of the Complexity of Cities with CAST.

Investigation of strategy dynamics using prisoner’s dilemma problem (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Chiong, R. (2004). Investigation of strategy dynamics using prisoner’s dilemma problem. In Proceedings of CGAIDE2004 (371-378)

The paper investigates games strategies on the basis of
experiments with Prisoner’s Dilemma problem. The
objective is to determine which strategies have the best
chance of winning. Although some strategies, such as tit-for-
tat, emerge as better... Read More about Investigation of strategy dynamics using prisoner’s dilemma problem.

Can Bottom-Up Modelling In Virtual Reality Replace Conventional Structural Analysis Methods? (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., Jankovic, S., Chan, A., & Little, G. (2003). Can Bottom-Up Modelling In Virtual Reality Replace Conventional Structural Analysis Methods?. . https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-5805%2802%2900046-8

Conventional structural analysis methods are typically based on describing the structure as a system of simultaneous algebraic equations and solving the system by iteration. A common feature of such methods is a top-down approach to modelling where t... Read More about Can Bottom-Up Modelling In Virtual Reality Replace Conventional Structural Analysis Methods?.

Visualisation of a simple beam under a load in virtual environment (2001)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, S., Jankovic, L., Chan, A., & Little, G. (2001). Visualisation of a simple beam under a load in virtual environment. In Proceedings Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation (589-591). https://doi.org/10.1109/iv.2001.942115

Visualisation is generally considered to be a problem in structural design. Being an iterative process, structural design is time consuming for engineers, and results are difficult for clients to visualize. Current numerical methods have slow dynamic... Read More about Visualisation of a simple beam under a load in virtual environment.