Building performance simulations searched through by ad-hoc-indicator-driven overlapping block coordinate descent

The explorations have been performed by the means of the OPTS program, which manages parametric explorations through the use of the ESP-r building performance simulation platform.

A current and open source version of OPTS can be found (as Sim::OPTS, Perl module) at the address search.cpan.org/~glbrune/. The here available files include an older, binary version of OPTS and two (still binary) programs for searching through the data with the support of the defined heuristic indicators. The outcomes of the computational experiments and the defined indicators are presented in the following document: Gian Luca Brunetti (2014). "Optimization as a design strategy.